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Can early epilepsy surgery in infants improve their developmental outcome?

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boxed-textLoddenkemper T et al. (2007) Developmental outcome after epilepsy surgery in infancy. Pediatrics 119: 930–935

Infants with medically intractable epilepsy are more likely to have improvement in their developmental outcome following surgery if the surgery is performed earlier and for epileptic spasms

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The synopsis was written by Martina Habeck, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. Division of Child Neurology, Columbus Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH 43220, USA jpaolicchi@chi.osu.edu

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  1. JM Paolicchi is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at The Ohio State University, Associate Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship at the Ohio State University, and Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Research at Columbus Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.,

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