Surgical treatment for medically refractory focal epilepsy in a patient with fragile X syndrome.

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RATIONALE: Medication resistant temporal lobe epilepsy occurs in a small population of patients with fragile X syndrome. We present the case of a 24-year-old man with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy and fragile X syndrome who underwent left anterior temporal lobectomy resulting in cessation of seizures. METHODS: Our patient was diagnosed with fragile X syndrome with a fully mutated, fully methylated...

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