Epileptic Disorders
MENUMinimally resective epilepsy surgery in MRI-negative children Volume 17, issue 3, September 2015
Authors
Aim
1 Department of Neurology, Miami Children's Hospital
2 Department of Neurosurgery, Miami Children's Hospital
3 Department of Neurosurgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
4 Department of Neurology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
* Correspondence: Ann Hyslop
Department of Neurology,
Miami Children's Hospital,
3100 62nd Court, #302,
Miami, FL 33155, USA
- Key words: epilepsy surgery, MRI-negative, seizure freedom, focal epilepsy, EEG, SPECT, PET, ECoG
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2015.0766
- Page(s) : 263-74
- Published in: 2015
Performing epilepsy surgery on children with non-lesional brain MRI often results in large lobar or multilobar resections. The aim of this study was to determine if smaller resections result in a comparable rate of seizure freedom.