Surgery for Epilepsy due to Cortical Malformation

Abstract

Seizure outcome after surgery for focal epilepsy due to malformation of cortical development (MCD), identified by MRI, was evaluated in 35 patients aged 3 months to 47 years (median, 14 years) operated at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Keywords

• malformation of cortical development
• disabling seizures
• hemimegalencephaly