Emerging treatments

Minimally invasive targeted surgery

Minimally invasive targeted surgical approaches have also been advocated whereby the risk-benefit assessment includes no expectation of seizure freedom.[85]​ The less invasive adjunctive techniques of stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) and MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) target seizure foci within complicated epileptic networks. Patients that were previously not considered surgical candidates for conventional epilepsy surgery may experience a reduction of seizures using this approach.[85]

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