The basic types of epilepsy surgery are:

Get information on the types of pediatric epilepsy surgery and the symptoms, treatment, and causes of childhood epilepsy.

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Types of epilepsy surgery treament include lobectomies, hemispherectomies, corpus callostomies, and vagal nerve stimulation.

Extra-temporal lobe surgery — Surgery for extra-temporal lobe epilepsy is less common than temporal lobe.

Remember to take a look at the transcripts from Chat Room talks: mine was on vagus nerve stimulation and my colleague Dr. Devinsky spoke about epilepsy surgery.

Surgical removal of seizure-producing areas of the brain has been an accepted form of treatment for over 50 years. Find information on the types of surgery, planning ahead and what to expect.

The type of epilepsy surgery you may have depends on the types of seizures you experience, and where they begin in your brain.

What is epilepsy surgery? Epilepsy surgery is a name for the different types of brain surgery (also called neurosurgery) that some people with epilepsy have.