Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society  1989;18(6):910-915

The Clinical Analysis of Surgical Treatment in the Medically Intractable Seizure.

Dong Sup CHUNG 1 ; Ki Won SUNG ; Jae Soo LEE ; Chang Rak CHOI ; Jin Un SONG

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Keywords

Anterior callosotomy; Amygdalo-hippocampectomy; Generalized epilepsy; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

We performed callosotomy and amygdalo-hippocampectomy in medically intractable seizure patients. Symptom duration of these patients was over 2 years and seizure was not controlled with anticonvulsants in spite of high level in drug monitoring according to their seizure type. 7 patients with generalized epilepsy were treated by anterior callosotomy and 8 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy were treated by amygdalo-hippocampectomy. Anyone of these patients were not dead and discovered permanent complications. And so these methods, anterior callostomy and amygdalo-hippocampectomy seems to be relatively safety and effective methods in treatment of medically intractable seizure.