Corpus Callosotomy for Controlling Epileptic Spasms: A Proposal for Surgical Selection
In 1940, van Wagenen and Herren first proposed the corpus callosotomy (CC) as a surgical procedure for epilepsy. CC has been mainly used to treat drop attacks, which are classified as generalized tonic or atonic seizures. Epileptic spasms (ESs) are a type of epileptic seizure characterized as brief...
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MDPI AG
2021-12-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/12/1601 |