RT Book, Section
A1 Weiner, Howard L.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182923643
T1 Epilepsy Treatment: Surgery
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182923643
RD 2024/04/25
AB Epilepsy  surgery  for  children  has  expanded  significantly  as  a  concept  in  the  last  20  years,  as  it  is  now  widely  recognized  that  it  can  be  tremendously  successful  in  transforming  the  lives  of  children  suffering  from  uncontrolled  seizures  and  their  families.  Advances  in  the  clinical  neurosciences,  as  well  as  in  neurosurgery,  pediatric  anesthesia,  and  pediatric  neuroradiology,  which  have  increased  the  efficacy  and  safety  of  pediatric  epilepsy  surgery,  coupled  with  the  now  well-established  concept  that  uncontrolled  seizures  are  detrimental  for  the  child’s  developing  brain,  have  shifted  the  risk-benefit  profile  in  favor  of  early  surgery  in  the  appropriate  patient.