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Temporal lobe surgery
Mon, 01/29/2007 - 19:31Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
This is my first visit to this site and I have a lot of qestions. I have been having absence siezures for 1 year and 4 months now. I have been through a lot of meds and none seem to work. I have had a couple of grand mal. Today my dr said that just about the only thing left is surgery. Its my right frontal lobe or temporal lobe. Does anyone have any advise
Re: Temporal lobe surgery
Submitted by cheryl doran on Thu, 2007-02-15 - 22:55
Hi, My 10 yr. old son just had a R frontal lobe resection on the 5th of Feb., just last Friday. He had cortical dysplasia, or a lesion, something he was born with. He had intracranial mapping, since the lesion was very close to his motor strip. This happenned on Mon. and the resection on Fri. They were able to remove the whole lesion without any damage to the motor strip. His success still remains at 50%. His surgery went extremely well!! He came home on Sun. two days afterwards and has no problems as of yet. Not even a complaint of a headache. He wants to go to school next week. He did have a sz. today which of course makes me worried. I know it's O.K. though for the first week because of swelling. We will take any improvement though, since he was having 1-2 simple partial szs. a day. Hope this makes you feel like there is hope and very good surgical outcomes Cheryl