Identifying and referring patients with epilepsy for surgery.
Surgery appears to be useful for a number of medically refractory epileptic patients. Temporal lobectomy, the most common surgical procedure, achieves significant reductions in seizures for most treated patients. With recent advances in technology, successful epilepsy localization can be performed in many patients without the need for invasive intracranial recordings.
D004566:Electrodes; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed