Madsen J R, Adelson P D, Haglund M M
Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Neurosurg Clin N Am. 1995 Jul;6(3):589-97.
Many of the advances in pediatric epilepsy surgery should reflect scientific, technical, and conceptual issues identical to those seen with adult epilepsy surgery. However, there are certainly some unique issues involving the developing brain, and these aspects require significant input from the discipline of developmental neurobiology and the study of cortical plasticity. These developmental disciplines may prove as critical as more traditional areas of electrophysiology thought to be key to the advancement of epilepsy surgery. Pediatric epilepsy surgery may turn out to be the major beneficiary of the basic scientific advancements in these burgeoning fields.
小儿癫痫手术的许多进展应反映出与成人癫痫手术相同的科学、技术和概念问题。然而，发育中的大脑确实存在一些独特问题，这些方面需要发育神经生物学学科以及皮质可塑性研究的大量投入。这些发育学科可能被证明与被认为是癫痫手术进展关键的更传统的电生理领域一样重要。小儿癫痫手术可能会成为这些新兴领域基础科学进展的主要受益者。
