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Epilepsy surgery in children
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Epilepsy surgery in children
Wien Klin Wochenschr.
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Abstract
Epilepsy surgery is becoming an increasingly used therapy for children with severe, medically intractable seizures. Temporal lobe ablation, corpus callosotomy, and hemispherectomy are currently the most commonly performed procedures. In this review the presurgical evaluation of patients with medically intractable seizures is described and risks and benefits of the surgery discussed. In selected patients temporal lobectomies and hemispherectomies may totally eliminate seizures while corpus callosotomies frequently reduce number and severity of generalized seizures.
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