Patient satisfaction with temporal lobectomy/selective amygdalohippocampectomy for temporal lobe epilepsy and its relationship with Engel classification and the side of lobectomy

Patient satisfaction with the results of epilepsy surgery may depend not only on achieving seizure control but also on the temporal lobe resected. Since worse results were associated with lower satisfaction rates only for left temporal resection patients, it is possible that the cognitive consequences of this procedure compound the worse surgical result, leading to decreased satisfaction.