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Under what circumstances would you treat intractable drug-resistant epilepsy with focused ultrasound rather than other surgical approaches?

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Neurosurgery · Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Essentially, the only condition of intractable epilepsy that might be considered treatable with high-intensity focused ultrasound would be intractable seizures associated with a hypothalamic hamartoma.

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