Epilepsy surgery utilization: Who, when, where, and why?

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-193

  Wiebe, Samuel ^a   Jetté, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drug resistant epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Underutilization

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAMARTOMA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS; MICROGYRIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; RECYCLING; REMISSION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; STROKE; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; WEST SYNDROME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859743743     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e328350baa6     Document Type: Review

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