Abstract
Objective
Epileptic patients with hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) frequently present cognitive impairments. Surgical techniques aiming at HH can be very efficient for epilepsy relief and cognitive improvement but are also demonstrated to carry a significant risk of additional reduction in memory function in these already disabled patients. Gamma knife radiosurgery (GKS) offers an efficient minimally invasive procedure. We evaluated the effect of stereotactic radiosurgery on cognitive outcome.
Methods
We designed a prospective single‐center case series study. Thirty‐nine epileptic patients (median age = 17 years, ...
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