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Laser interstitial thermal therapy for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is an increasingly standard surgical tool for ablating epileptic foci, and the Laser Ablation of Abnormal Neurological Tissue Using Robotic NeuroBlate System (LAANTERN) registry, representing the largest prospective multicenter cohort, aimed to describe seizure outcomes, procedural outcomes, and safety data for LITT in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). LITT was found to be well tolerated and effective for drug-resistant MTLE, showing clinically meaningful seizure outcomes and quality of life (QOL) improvements. At two-year follow-up, 58.4% of…
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