Epilepsy surgery
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Vishnu Vardhan Serla M.B.B.S. [2]
Indication
Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with epilepsy. Surgery is usually reserved for patients who their seizure continues to happen despite using maximum dosage of anti-seizure drugs.[1]
Surgery
The goal of surgery in epilepsy can be divided into two categories:
- Curative
- Lesional resection
- Lobectomy
- Corticectomy
- Hemispheric disconnection
- Multiple subpial transactions
- Gamma knife radiosurgery
- Palliative
- hemispheric surgery
- Multiple subpial transections
- Disconnection procedures such as callosotomy
- Stimulation procedures including vagal nerve stimulation deep brain stimulation.[1]