Various epilepsy surgery procedures can be used to cure or reduce seizure frequency. Most procedures are either designed to resect or disconnect the area of the brain where seizures originate or spread. Epilepsy surgery is a procedure that either removes or isolates the area of the brain where seizures originate. Epilepsy surgery can significantly improve seizure control in a carefully selected...

UNLABELLED Epilepsy can affect the quality of life (QOL) of patients. The temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is often refractory to medication, which has an adverse impact on QOL. The surgery can be a form to control the seizures and to improve the QOL of the patients. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to verify the QOL of children and adolescents with TLE who underwent surgery for epilepsy, comp...

More than 85% of the total global burden of epilepsy is found in population of lowor middle-income countries. In the vast majority of these are African countries that however are less equipped to handle this disease and especially in his surgical component. Until recently the epilepsy surgery was been considered as treatment using expensive technology and therefore reserved for developed countr...

The Commission on Neurosurgery of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) formed the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Subcommission in 1998 and charged it with formulating guidelines and recommendations for epilepsy surgery in childhood. Also endorsed by the Commission on Paediatrics, the following document is the consensus agreement after a meeting of 32 individuals from 12 countries in 200...

This review traces the evolution of epilepsy surgery in India from the beginning to the present state. During the last one and half decades, surgical treatment of epilepsies has made resurgence in this country and at present a few centers have very active and sustained epilepsy surgery programs. Within a 14-year period, the R. Madhavan Nayar Center for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care, Trivandrum, h...