Epilepsy Surgery: Special Circumstances

Epilepsy surgery has proven to be very effective in treating refractory focal epilepsies in children, producing seizure freedom or partial seizure control well beyond any other medical or dietary therapies. While surgery is mostly utilized in certain clinical phenotypes, either based on the location such as temporal lobe epilepsy, or based on the presence of known epileptogenic lesions such as focal cortical dysplasia, tumors or...