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To the Editor: The trial by Wiebe et al. (Aug. 2 issue)¹ of surgery as compared with prolonged medical treatment for temporal-lobe seizures clearly demonstrated the superiority of surgical intervention and illustrated the feasibility of conducting randomized controlled trials in patients with epilepsy. In the accompanying editorial, Engel² urges that more studies be performed to define more precisely the role and timing of conventional surgery in drug-resistant epilepsy. Other approaches to treatment, such as gamma-knife radiosurgery, are not considered. Gamma-knife radiosurgery is a noninvasive technique involving the selective delivery of concentrated radiation to a stereotactically defined intracranial target. The use . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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