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Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery (cont.)

Pediatric epilepsy surgery can be used to treat a highly selected group of patients whose seizures are not controllable by standard means.
The appropriate candidate for epilepsy surgery must meet several criteria.
There are currently three major categories of epilepsy surgery: resective surgery, corpus callosotomy, and implantation of the vagus nerve stimulator.
In patients that meet the requirements for epilepsy surgery the results, in terms of seizure control, can be very positive with minimal side effects and complications.

Previous contributing medical author: Harley I. Kornblum, MD, PhD

Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008

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