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However, it remains unknown whether patients who underwent one of these two approaches would show better performance on vestibulo-spatial tasks. Methods: Twenty-seven patients were included in three different groups: (1) MRgLITT (37.0 \u00b1 15.1 years, two females), (2) R-OP (44 \u00b1 15.7 years, five females) and (3) No-OP (43 \u00b1 11.2 years, three females)\u2014with no significant differences in age, disease duration and number of medications. Groups were compared on their performance in three vestibular-dependent tests: (1) clinical balance test (CBT), (2) triangle completion test (TCT) and (3) rotational memory (RM) test. Results: Significantly better performance of MRgLITT patients, in comparison to the other two groups (R-OP and No-OP), was found for the TCT. The other tests revealed no significant differences between the groups. Conclusions: Patients who underwent MRgLITT performed significantly better on the vestibular-dependent spatial orientation task (TCT) compared to those who underwent temporal lobectomy (R-OP) and non-operated patients. Speculations about reasons for such an effect\u2014including minimal invasiveness with less \u201ccollateral damage\u201d, influence of operated side, timing of surgery, sample heterogeneity and others\u2014need to be assessed in detail in larger-scale, prospective longitudinal studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm14010156","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,31]],"date-time":"2024-12-31T07:00:37Z","timestamp":1735628437000},"page":"156","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Lobectomy vs. MRgLITT in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE): A Pilot Study Investigating Vestibulo-Spatial Functions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7869-3519","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Milos","family":"Dordevic","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Degenerative and Chronic Diseases of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FGW), University Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kiana Assady","family":"Looyeh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Friedhelm C.","family":"Schmitt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5483-6423","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Notger G.","family":"M\u00fcller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Degenerative and Chronic Diseases of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FGW), University Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4320","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-022-31730-5","article-title":"Structural network alterations in focal and generalized epilepsy assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study follow axes of epilepsy risk gene expression","volume":"13","author":"Royer","year":"2022","journal-title":"Nat. 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