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March 21, 2010

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There are many different brain disorders associated with epilepsy in children including congenital or acquired. There are three types of pediatric epilepsy surgery; resective epilepsy surgery, corpus callosotomy, and vagus nerve stimulation. The type of surgery depends upon the type of seizure disorder the child has.

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Corpus Callosotomy
Epilepsy Surgery, Children
Resective Epilepsy Surgery
Seizure Surgery, Children
Vagus Nerve Stimulator

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