title: Epilepsy: principles of surgical management.
abstract: In his keynote address, the author reviews early work in the surgical management of the epilepsies and presents a state-of-the-art review of current basic science and clinical indications for and results from corpus callosotomy for the treatment of seizure disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Instituto Neurologico de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marino
mesh_terms: D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000601:surgery; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000601:surgery; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000601:surgery*; D004829:Epilepsy, Generalized / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques