Successful epilepsy surgery in two cases with multiple sclerosis
Nicole van Klink,
Simon Tousseyn,
Olaf Schijns
et al.
Abstract:Brain surgery is the only curative treatment for people with focal epilepsy, but it is unclear whether this induces active disease in multiple sclerosis (MS). This creates a barrier to evaluate MS patients for epilepsy surgery. We present two cases of successful epilepsy surgery in patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy and stable MS, and give an overview of the existing literature. 1) a 28 year old woman with seizures arising from a right basal temporo‐occipital ganglioglioma was seizure free after surgery,… Show more
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