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ReviewTranslational pediatrics2016

Surgical strategies for pediatric epilepsy.

Jian Guan, Michael Karsy, Katrina Ducis, Robert J Bollo

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Review in Translational pediatrics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Beyond seizures: understanding adaptive functioning in drug-resistant epilepsy in patients undergoing palliative surgery.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
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  10. Pediatric Magnetoencephalography in Clinical Practice and Research.Neuroimaging clinics of North America · 2020
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  11. An update on pediatric surgical epilepsy: Part II.Surgical neurology international · 2019
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  12. Long term neurocognitive improvement after "late" right hemispherectomy: case report and review of the literature.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jian Guan1 Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA ; 2 Division of Neurosurgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Michael Karsy1 Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA ; 2 Division of Neurosurgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Katrina Ducis1 Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA ; 2 Division of Neurosurgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Robert J Bollo1 Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA ; 2 Division of Neurosurgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pediatric epilepsy is a debilitating condition that impacts millions of patients throughout the world. Approximately 20-30% of children with recurrent seizures have drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). For these patients, surgery offers the possibility of not just seizure freedom but significantly improved neurocognitive and behavioral outcomes. The spectrum of surgical options is vast, ranging from outpatient procedures such as vagus nerve stimulation to radical interventions including hemispherectomy. The thread connecting all of these interventions is a common goal-seizure freedom, an outcome that can be achieved safely and durably in a large proportion of patients. In this review, we discuss many of the most commonly performed surgical interventions and describe the indications, complications, and outcomes specific to each.

Indexed as

Epilepsy surgerypediatric epilepsyseizure freedom

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PMID27186522
PMCPMC4855198

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