Abstract
Anatomical-clinical correlations and EEG findings in 10 children, aged 26 months to 11 years (median 6 years), with drug resistant partial epilepsy and focal cortical dysplasia, operated on 1996-2000, were analysed at the Epilepsy Surgery Centre “C Munari” in Milan, Italy.
Highlights
Surgery consisted of corticectomy plus lesionectomy in all cases
Seizures were completely controlled at 25 month follow-up or longer in 70% patients
Seizures are controlled following surgery in 70% of children with drug-resistant partial epilepsies and histologically confirmed focal cortical dysplasia
Summary
A 10-year-old girl born with telangiectasias of the lip, trunk, extremities, palms, and soles was found to have an asymptomatic Chiari I malformation without syringomyelia on MRI, and is reported from Children's Hospital, Alabama. SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF SEIZURES WITH FOCAL CORTICAL DYSPLASIA Anatomical-clinical correlations and EEG findings in 10 children, aged 26 months to 11 years (median 6 years), with drug resistant partial epilepsy and focal cortical dysplasia, operated on 1996-2000, were analysed at the Epilepsy Surgery Centre "C Munari" in Milan, Italy. MRI abnormalities were unilobar in 5, bilobar in 2, and multilobar in 1.
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