Division of the corpus callosum for uncontrollable epilepsy

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Abstract
Cerebral commissurotomy, the split-brain procedure, was used for the control of intractable seizures, in conjunction with moderate doses of anticonvulsant drugs. The results were encouraging in several small series. The use of microsurgical techniques and the restriction of surgery to series. The use of microsurgical techniques and the restriction of surgery to 1 commissure, the corpus callosum, has reduced morbidity without apparent change in result. The 8 patients in a 1st series who underwent the prescribed division of several forebrain commissures are compared to the 4 patients in the 2nd series who underwent division of the corpus callosum alone. The technique of callosotomy is described.

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