Refractory Epilepsy- How Much to Investigate ?
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Systematic localization of the epileptic zone and procedures for surgical resection are not recent developments in the treatment of epilepsy. based on the work of Hughlings Jackson. Between 1890 and 1910, Horsley reported series of patients who received craniotomy for the treatment of symptomatic epilepsy from a known cause, often traumatic. Wilder Penfield and Herbert Jasper, and many others followed with important advances in the development of evaluative and surgical techniques for refractory epilepsy. Percival Bailey and Frederick Gibbs were among the first teams to resect the epileptogenic region based on EEG localization and semiology without identified structural brain abnormalities.
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