Surgical treatment of epilepsy

Year 2013, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 107 - 111, 01.06.2013

Davut Ceylan Can Yaldız

https://doi.org/10.5505/sakaryamj.2013.94899

Abstract

The purpose in epilepsy treatment is the complete control of seizures and the minimization of the side effects of antiepileptic drugs.Epilepsy clinics deal a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic problems of patients with uncontrolled seizures. The choice of surgical treatment must be considered in such patients who are resistant medical treatment.

Keywords

epilepsy , resistant epilepsy , surgical treatment

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