Seizure Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery in Children
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Outcomes of epilepsy surgery in adults and children.
Surgery is widely accepted as an effective therapy for selected individuals with medically refractory epilepsy. Numerous studies in the past 20 years have reported seizure freedom for at least 1 year in 53-84% of patients after anteromesial temporal lobe resections for mesial temporal lobe sclerosis, in 66-100% of patients with dual pathology, in 36-76% of patients with localised neocortical ep...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-35-2