Epilepsy patients are usually managed medically but some
cases are resistant to medical treatment and needs surgical
treatment. Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is commonly
intractable. The underlying cause may be mesial temporal
sclerosis(MTS), cortical dysplasia(CD), tumors
(ganglioglioma, dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor-
DNET), post traumatic gliosis, infection (tuberculosis)
parasitic infestation (schistosomiasis, neurocystocercosis) etc.
In this type of epilepsy surgery is the treatment of choice
(even there is no symptoms other than seizure). Here we report
two cases of surgically treated TLE that were due to low grade
ganglioglioma and high grade ganglioglioma. In both cases
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