Surgery for Epilepsy Due to Cortical Malformations: Ten‐year Follow‐up

Children with malformations of cortical development represent a significant proportion of pediatric epilepsy surgery candidates. From a cohort of 40 children operated on between 1980 and 1992 with malformation of cortical development, 38 were alive and had data 10 years after surgery. Age at surgery...

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Veröffentlicht in:Epilepsia (Copenhagen) 2005-04, Vol.46 (4), p.556-560
Hauptverfasser: Hamiwka, Lorie, Jayakar, Prasanna, Resnick, Trevor, Morrison, Glenn, Ragheb, John, Dean, Patricia, Dunoyer, Catalina, Duchowny, Michael
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Zusammenfassung:Children with malformations of cortical development represent a significant proportion of pediatric epilepsy surgery candidates. From a cohort of 40 children operated on between 1980 and 1992 with malformation of cortical development, 38 were alive and had data 10 years after surgery. Age at surgery ranged from 6 months to 18 years (mean, 9.6 years). Thirty‐six had partial seizures, and two had infantile spasms; 20 were nonlesional. Pathologic diagnoses were cortical dysplasia (n = 31) and developmental tumor (n = 7). At 10‐year follow‐up, 15 (40%) were seizure free, 10 (26%) had >90% seizure reduction, and 13 (34%) were improved or unchanged. Children seizure free at two‐year follow‐up were likely to remain seizure free. Ten‐year seizure freedom was 72% in children with developmental tumors and 32% in the cortical dysplasia group. Complete resection was statistically significant for favorable outcome, and no patient with an incomplete resection was seizure free.
ISSN:0013-9580
1528-1167
DOI:10.1111/j.0013-9580.2005.52504.x