title: Epilepsy surgery in adults.
abstract: Epilepsy surgery is capable of stopping seizures or markedly reducing their frequency in selected patients with medically refractory epilepsy. Presurgical evaluation, as currently practiced, requires concordance among a battery of localizing tests. Cost-effectiveness is increasingly important in the development of optimal presurgical protocols and surgical procedures in specific patient populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lamoureux
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Spencer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000191:economics; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000191:economics / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D011612:Psychosurgery / Q000191:economics; D011788:Quality of Life