title: Bilateral epilepsy surgery in a 4-year-old child.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Reports on bilateral epilepsy surgical interventions are anecdotal because of the possible neurological deficits caused by them.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report on a four-year-old amaurotic child with catastrophic epilepsy due to bilateral occipital cortical dysplasia. After video-EEG monitoring and intraoperative electrocorticography he underwent a two-step bilateral occipital lobectomy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The first resection resulted in only temporary seizure cessation; however, he became seizure-free after the second operation (follow-up: 20 months).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients with catastrophic epilepsy due to bilateral epileptogenic lesions but without a high risk of additional postsurgical deficit may be good candidates for epilepsy surgery.
authors.affiliation: Bethesda Children's Hospital, 1146 Budapest, Hungary. fogarasi@bethesda.hu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fogarasi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neuwirth
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hegyi
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Siegler
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barsi
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gyorsok
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Janszky
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Madarassy
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bognár
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000150:complications; D002388:Catastrophic Illness / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation