245 Influence of Iq/Dq on Outcome in Childhood Epilepsy Surgery

Presurgical evaluation and outcome of epilepsy surgery in childhood

Surgery in the management of children with epilepsy is not new. Murray Falconer, a neurosurgeon at the Maudsley Hospital, recognised that children as well as adults may benefit from resective surgery, but the age range of his patients did not include the very young1. Traditionally, focal seizures have been more difficult to diagnose in the young child, both clinically and electrographically, an...

Presurgical Evaluation and Epilepsy Surgery in MRI Negative Resistant Epilepsy of Childhood with Good Outcome.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-negative epilepsy may be successfully solved with a multidisciplinary approach using invasive recordings, image and signal analysis. The whole methodology used by the epilepsy surgery team is systematically described based on an resistant epilepsy case with all steps and rationale of choosing different investigation methods from surface electroencephalography (E...

The Determiners of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery Outcome in a Developing Country

Background: Epilepsy surgery has become a successful treatment option for patients with drug-resistant epilepsies. Objectives: This study aimed to assess temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery outcome and its association with epilepsy duration, the presence of pre-surgical generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS), and brain MRI findings. Materials & Methods: This retrospective study was perfo...

The outcome of epilepsy surgery.

Verbal memory after epilepsy surgery in childhood

PURPOSE To investigate verbal memory after epilepsy surgery both group-wise and at the level of individual children, and to assess associations with side of surgery and removal of the temporal lobe. METHODS A prospective controlled study in a consecutive sample of 21 children undergoing epilepsy surgery, with comprehensive assessments of verbal memory before surgery and six, 12 and 24 months ...