Surgical Management of Seizures with Focal Cortical Dysplasia

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.

Keywords

• focal cortical dysplasia
• frontal lobe seizures
• corticectomy plus lesionectomy