Epilepsy surgery patients with cortical dysplasia

Abstract

This issue of Neurology® publishes two studies that together report on 315 epilepsy surgery patients with cortical dysplasia: Krsek et al., a mostly pediatric cohort from Miami Children's Hospital, and Kim et al., a generally adult population from Seoul, Korea.^7,8 Both centers have previously published on their cohorts.^9,10 From these and other reports emerges a clearer image of the electro-clinico-pathologic characteristics of patients with cortical dysplasia. For example, most surgical patients have mild compared with severe forms of cortical dysplasia on histopathology. This is defined as mild malformations of cortical development (mMCD; 16%) or mild type I (59%) cortical dysplasia using the Palmini classification system …