Pediatric epilepsy surgery: looking back while moving forward.

摘要

Nearly a quarter of childhood epilepsy is medically refractory.For those children and their families, surgical intervention has the potential to reduce the burden of epilepsy. To address the unique challenges of epilepsy surgery in this population, dedicated multi-disciplinary pediatric epilepsy centers have been developed. An expert international consensus panel2 recommended that referral to such centers be considered for all children who are medically refractory or experiencing disabling medication side effects, independent of their cognitive ability or the presence of psychiatric comorbidity.