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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 …

Object. It is widely accepted that temporal resective surgery represents an efficacious
treatment option for patients with epilepsy of temporal origin. The meticulous knowledge of …

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of epilepsy in adults and is
responsible for 15%–20% of epilepsy cases in children. Class I evidence strongly supports …

OBJECTIVE: Temporal lobectomy is a well-established neurosurgical procedure for
temporal lobe epilepsy. In this study, we conducted a retrospective review of children with …

PURPOSE: Due to differences in epilepsy types and surgery, economic evaluations of
epilepsy treatment in adults cannot be extrapolated to children. We evaluated the cost …

Background Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is a common surgical substrate in adult epilepsy
surgery cohorts but variably reported in various pediatric cohorts. Objective We aimed to …

Pediatric epilepsy surgery is underutilized. Only 1%-11% of children with drug resistant
epilepsy (DRE) undergo surgical treatment, or less than half of those estimated to benefit …

BACKGROUND: Reoperations account for> 10% in pediatric epilepsy surgery cohorts, and
they are especially relevant in young children with catastrophic epilepsy. OBJECTIVE: To …

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the treatment outcomes and social
engagement of patients who had undergone pediatric epilepsy surgery more than 10 years …