[Surgical treatment of clinical syndromes of intractable epilepsy in developmental age].

According to a longterm cathamnestic investigation in a series of 2400 patients 80% had favorably responded to medication, 60% are seizure free and in 20% there was significant improvement. In further 20% any therapy has had failed. 200 children have been operated upon because of epilepsy resistant to pharmacological treatment. In 80 classical methods (hemispherectomies, lobectomies topectomies and disconnective techniques) have been performed. In further 120 cases nosologically verified symptomatic epilepsy associated with the leading symptom of untreatable fits due to aetiological lesions as neoplasms, scars, angiomas, cysts lesionectomies extended by focectomies have been performed.