Surgical treatment of epilepsy

We present a patient suffering from focal epilepsy manifested by frequent epileptic 
attacks resistant to anticonvulsant drugs since early childhood. Because of unsuccessful drug 
treatment, high seizure frequency and positive indications for surgery, the patient was submitted
 to a neurosurgical intervention, which improved control of seizures. Candidates for surgery are
 patients with convulsive manifestations originating in a localised area of the brain which can be
 excised without producing notable neurological deficits, and who have frequent and severe epileptic 
attacks resistant to anticonvulsant medication. In view of good results of surgical therapy, this
treatment modality should be considered in carefully selected patients.