Epilepsy surgery in children and adults.
Epilepsy surgery is now accepted as a treatment modality for medically intractable epilepsy. A careful and detailed evaluation of patients is required by a trained epilepsy team which includes neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuroradiologists, psychologists and psychiatrists. For intractable complex partial seizures of temporal lobe origin, epilepsy surgery offers an 80% success rate.
Pillay
P K
PK
Department of Neurosurgery, Singapore General Hospital.
Lim
S H
SH
Chee
M
M
Awad
I
I
Luders
H
H
D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans