title: Predictive factors of callosotomy in drug-resistant epileptic patients with a long follow-up.
abstract: Some possible factors to predict outcome after callosotomy were investigated in a personal series composed of 36 patients. Twenty-seven of them were submitted to anterior callosotomy, 1 to posterior callosotomy and the remaining 8 patients to two stage complete division of corpus callosum. All factors, either positive or negative, do not appear completely reliable; they can be envisaged only in relative terms and do not seem to be relevant to make surgical decision or to discard surgery. In author's series, dealing specifically with drop-attacks, it clearly appeared that abrupt falls to the ground unpreceded by other epileptic features did definitely better. This was the only statistically significant datum.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Division, Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Papo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quattrini
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ortenzi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paggi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rychlicki
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Provinciali
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Del Pesce
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cesarano
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fioravanti
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000601:surgery*; D004351:Drug Resistance; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors