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The age of patients at the time of surgery was between 1.7 and 17.3 years (mean: 7.8 years). Surgeries were lobar or multilobar resection in 21 (77.8%) patients and hemispherotomy in 6 (22.2%). At a mean of 33.1 months' postoperative follow-up, 16 (59.3%) patients had no seizures and 4 (14.8%) had infrequent seizures. Of 4 patients without brain abnormalities found on MRI, 2 patients became seizure-free after resective surgery was performed on the basis of electrophysiologic studies and concordant results in other multimodal neuroimages. Malformation of cortical development was the most common pathology and was seen in 20 (74.1%) patients, but 2 (7.4% patients) did not show any abnormal pathology. Sixteen (72.7%) patients, including 14 who had no seizures and 2 who had infrequent seizures after surgery, showed an increase in developmental quotient. No clinical profile was significantly associated with postoperative seizure-free rate.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>CONCLUSIONS: Resective epilepsy surgery should be considered for children with LGS, despite abundant generalized and multiregional electroencephalogram abnormalities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.2009-0566","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,12,15]],"date-time":"2009-12-15T01:38:56Z","timestamp":1260841136000},"page":"e58-e66","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":80,"title":["Resective Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery in Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"125","author":[{"given":"Yun Jin","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Epilepsy Clinics, Severance Children's Hospital, Brain Research Institute"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hoon-Chul","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Epilepsy Clinics, Severance Children's Hospital, Brain Research Institute"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joon Soo","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Epilepsy Clinics, Severance Children's Hospital, Brain Research Institute"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shin Hye","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Epilepsy Clinics, Severance Children's Hospital, Brain Research Institute"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dong-Seok","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Severance Hospital"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kyu-Won","family":"Shim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Severance Hospital"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yun-Ho","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Severance Hospital"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tae Seung","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathology, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Heung Dong","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Epilepsy Clinics, Severance Children's Hospital, Brain Research Institute"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"417","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021120821193316700_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Goldsmith IL, Zupanc ML, Buchhalter JR. 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