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Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

see Vagus nerve stimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy in children.

see Pediatric Resective Epilepsy Surgery.

Outcome

Epilepsy surgery was more effective than medical therapy to control seizures. Understanding seizure outcomes of different surgery locations, pathologies, nonlesional epilepsy, and incomplete resection will assist with presurgical counseling 1).

Books

Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Preoperative Assessment and Surgical Treatment

1)
Widjaja E, Jain P, Demoe L, Guttmann A, Tomlinson G, Sander B. Seizure outcome of pediatric epilepsy surgery: Systematic review and meta-analyses. Neurology. 2020 Feb 18;94(7):311-321. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000008966. Epub 2020 Jan 29. PMID: 31996452.