Editorial on 'Surgical treatment of epilepsy in children'. Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery

摘要

The diagnosis and the treatment of epilepsy represent one of the most rapidly evolving fields of neurosciences.Electroencephalographic video monitoring, more sophisticated neurophysiological investigations, more accurate neurocognitive tests, and advances in structural, functional, and metabolic neuroimaging have changed the way how epilepsy is approached over the last decade.New antiepileptic drugs have increased the number of subjects whose seizure disorder is controlled in comparison with the success rates recorded with the classical pharmacological agents. However, in spite of this broader availability of effective antiepileptic drugs, the surgical treatment of epilepsy is progressively more utilized in difficult cases.