title: Epilepsy surgery in children.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000601:surgery; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000601:surgery; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000601:surgery*; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011612:Psychosurgery; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000601:surgery