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Old 02-20-2007, 12:28 AM
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Default Lobectomy is a...

surgical removal of a the lobe (or partial part of the lobe) in which the seizures are coming. Whether it be temporal or frontal. Basically, with my dad, because he has had so many seizures, they need to scrape the scar tissues from the area/lobe and then remove a small portion of this area to help prevent further seizures. But if they feel that he is having to many seizures during this first process and that the lobectomy won't work then they will look into other more depth procedures such as Corpus callosotomy, Multiple subpial transections, Deep brain stimulation. These I don't even understand quite as much and hope I don't really have to read up on them.

But if anyone has any more thoughts, please, it would be appreciated.

Thanks to all of you who have helped so far.

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