Patient's question:
The baby has epilepsy, and the doctor said surgery is needed. What are the types of pediatric epilepsy surgery?Doctor's answer:
Adults can undergo epilepsy surgery, and children also recover well. For example, resective surgery (including epileptic zone resection and inflammatory resection) for adults is the same as for children. There is a special point for children: because their weight is lower and blood volume is less, special attention must be paid to skin incisions and blood volume issues during surgery. Additionally, children's brain tissue is not fully developed, especially for children under 5 years old, whose brain plasticity is relatively high. Therefore, children can undergo more hemispherectomy or multilobar hemispherectomy. Even if limb dysfunction reappears after surgery, most cases will gradually compensate during subsequent growth and development.