Improved outcomes in pediatric epilepsy surgery: the UCLA experience, 1986-2008.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Epilepsy neurosurgery is a treatment option for children with refractory epilepsy. Our aim was to determine if outcomes improved over time.

Methods

Pediatric epilepsy surgery patients operated in the first 11 years (1986-1997; pre-1997) were compared with the second 11 years (1998-2008; post-1997) for differences in presurgical and postsurgical variables.

Results

Despite similarities in seizure frequency, age at seizure onset, and age at surgery, the post-1997 series had more lobar/focal and fewer multilobar resections, and more patients with tuberous sclerosis complex and fewer cases of nonspecific gliosis compared with the pre-1997 group. Fewer cases had intracranial EEG studies in the post-1997 (0.8%) compared with the pre-1997 group (9%). Compared with t

SUBMITTER: Hemb M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2882215 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature