Epilepsy surgery in children often involves brain areas outside the temporal lobe and, therefore, techniques for extratemporal surgery must be included in the armamentarium of epilepsy surgery centers. Nowadays, disconnective procedures are preferable to traditional resective operations because they reduce the rate of complications related to extensive resections while achieving equivalent seizure outcomes 1)


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Santos MV, Machado HR. Extratemporal disconnective procedures for the treatment of epilepsy in children. Epilepsia. 2017 Apr;58 Suppl 1:28-34. doi: 10.1111/epi.13683. PubMed PMID: 28386929.
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