Effectiveness of total corpus callosotomy for diffuse bilateral polymicrogyria: Report of three pediatric cases
Polymicrogyria, a malformation of the cerebral cortex, frequently causes epilepsy. Diffuse bilateral polymicrogyria (DBP) is related to poor epilepsy prognosis, but most patients with DBP are not good candidates for resective epilepsy surgery and effectiveness of corpus callosotomy (CC), a palliative surgery, for patients without resective epileptogenic cortices, has not been established in DBP. Because CC might be effective against DBP-related epilepsy, we conducted total CC in three pediatric DBP cases.
Source: Brain and Development - Category: Neurology Authors: Shimpei Baba, Tohru Okanishi, Mitsuyo Nishimura, Sotaro Kanai, Shinji Itamura, Takayuki Suzuki, Yosuke Masuda, Hideo Enoki, Ayataka Fujimoto Tags: Case report Source Type: research