Single Stage Epilepsy Surgery in Children and Adolescents with Focal Cortical Dysplasia Type II – Prognostic Value of the Intraoperative Electrocorticogram

With up to 80% of well-selected patients becoming seizure-free, epilepsy surgery has proved to be a successful therapeutic option for children and adolescents with drug-resistant epilepsies (Bittar et al., 2002; Dorfer et al., 2013; Gröppel et al., 2015; Jenny et al., 2016). However, seizure freedom after surgery depends on the complete resection/disconnection of the epileptogenic zone (Muthaffar et al., 2017; Rosenow and Luders, 2001). Currently, none of the available diagnostic tests applied during pre-surgical evaluation permit direct measurement of the epileptogenic zone.

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