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From Resection to Disconnection for Seizure Control in Pediatric Epilepsy Children

  • Hwang, Jun Kyu (Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Severance Children's Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Seok (Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Severance Children's Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2019.01.24
  • Accepted : 2019.03.21
  • Published : 2019.05.01
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Abstract

Epilepsy surgery revealed dramatically improved seizure outcomes over medical therapy in drug-resistant epilepsy patients. Children with epilepsy, however, have multiple epileptic focuses which require multilobar resection for better seizure outcome. Multilobar resection has not only the several severe surgical complications, such as hydrocephalus and shunt-related craniosynostosis, due to intracranial volume reduction. Isolation method (disconnection surgery) was progressively studied over epileptic focus removal (resective surgery) for seizure control. This concept was first introduced for functional hemispherotomy, and its primary principle is to preserve the vital vascularized brain that is functionally disconnected from the contralateral healthy brain. Currently in most epilepsy centers, the predominant disconnection surgical methods, including functional hemispherotomy, are continually being refined and are showing excellent results. They allow the functional isolation of the hemisphere or multi-lobe, affected by severe epilepsy. This review describes recent findings concerning the indication, surgical technique, seizure outcome and complications in several disconnection surgeries including the functional hemispherotomy for refractory pediatric epilepsy.

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