Interstitial Thermal Therapy in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a surgical tool used to ablate epileptic foci and brain tumors. Understanding clinical and procedural outcomes of LITT for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) is relevant to clinicians and patients.

Objective

To describe seizure outcomes, procedural outcomes, and safety data of MTLE LITT.

Design, setting, and participants

Laser Ablation of Abnormal Neurological Tissue Using Robotic NeuroBlate System (LAANTERN) is a prospective multicenter registry with up to 5 years of follow-up lasting from October 2015 to March 2023 at LAANTERN epilepsy sites, which are all level IV National Association of Epilepsy Centers in the US. Adult and pediatric LAANTERN enrollees undergoing LITT for drug-resistant MTLE with at least 6

SUBMITTER: Landazuri P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12235534 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature