Findings from randomised controlled trials, along with more than 100 case series and
observational studies, support the efficacy and safety of resective surgery and, more …

Epilepsy surgery utilization: who, when, where, and why? : Current Opinion in Neurology
Epilepsy surgery utilization: who, when, where, and why? : Current Opinion in Neurology Log …

Background Surgery is increasingly used as treatment for refractory focal epilepsy; however,
few rigorous reports of long-term outcome exist. We did this study to identify long-term …

Assessment of long-term outcomes is essential in brain surgery for epilepsy, which is an
irreversible intervention for a chronic condition. Excellent short-term results of resective …

Epilepsy is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting approximately 1% of the world's
population. Drug-resistant focal epilepsies are potentially surgically remediable. Although …

Importance Epilepsy surgery is indicated for patients with focal seizures who do not respond
to appropriate antiepileptic drug therapy consisting of 2 or more medications. Objectives To …

PURPOSES: To provide evidence-based quantitative summary estimates of seizure
outcomes in patients with non-lesional and lesional epilepsy treated with surgery, and to …

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Surgery for intractable epilepsy is a widely used treatment that is not readily assessed by
randomised trials. We evaluated the impact of epilepsy surgery on seizures, medication use …

Objective Surgery and drug therapy are the two main treatments for refractory epilepsy.
However, to date, there has not been an adequate comparison of the outcomes of these two …