Quality of life after surgery for intractable partial epilepsy in children: a cohort study with controls.

Purpose: Investigate if quality of life (QOL) normalizes on long-term follow-up after surgery for partial epilepsy in children.

Methods: This is a cohort study with controls in which a consecutive cohort of nineteen 2-14-year-old children who underwent focal resections for intractable partial seizures between 1996 and 2006, were matched with 19 non-surgery intractable partial epilepsy patients, and with 19 healthy subjects. The two epilepsy groups were matched for age, sex, socio-economic status (SES), cognitive level, seizure type, and seizure frequency.