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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Neurol. 2017 Mar 8;32(7):624–629. doi: 10.1177/0883073817697847

Table 1.

Demographic data.

A total of 20 subjects were included.
Total number of subjects 20

Males 12 (60%)

Females 8 (40%)

Age at surgery (mean; range) 12 years; 5.1 years to 19 years

Seizure onset (mean; range) 4.0 years; 2 weeks to 10 years

Etiology
 Unknown 14
 Structural/metabolic 4
 Genetics 2

Seizure types- number of patients (percentage)
 seizures leading to falls 13 (65%)
  Tonic 9 (45%)
  Atonic 5 (25%)
  Myoclonic 1 (5%)
  Rapidly spreading focal seizure 9 (45%)
 Generalized tonic clonic seizure 10 (50%)
 Atypical absence 1 (5%)
 Epileptic spasms 4 (20%)
 Dyscognitive focal seizure

With vagus nerve stimulator 9 (45%)

Duration of epilepsy prior to corpus callosotomy 8.41 years; 1 year to 18 years

Extent of corpus callosotomy
 Total 15 (75%)
 Two-third 3 (15%)
 Two-third followed by Total 2 (10%)

Technique
 Craniotomy 10
 Endoscopy 10
  Anterior approach 8
  Posterior approach 2