SURGERY AND EPILEPSY

Corpus callosotmy was introduced in 1940 as a palliative treatment for generalized epilepsies. The improvement of the surgical technique, an d the simplification of the initial ''total commissurotomy'' made that pocedure proposed in order to decrease the frquency and the severity of the seizures occuring in the secondary geralzed epilepsies. However the indication criteria remain unclear, due to the difficulty for ana lysing the results and the feterogenity of the series. A careful selec tion requiring a comprehensive epilepsy team remains mandatory despite the relative simplicity of the procedure.