Jerome Engel, Samuel Wiebe, Kurupath Radhakrishnan, André Palmini
{"title":"Surgical treatment for epilepsy.","authors":"Jerome Engel, Samuel Wiebe, Kurupath Radhakrishnan, André Palmini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Surgical treatment for epilepsy remains highly underutilized: in the United States, there has been no increase in the number of surgical procedures performed annually since 1990<sup>1</sup>; for most patients referred, the average duration of epilepsy is 22 years<sup>2</sup>; and there has been no change in this delay to surgery<sup>3</sup>, despite two randomized controlled trials<sup>4, 5</sup> and an American Academy of Neurology practice parameter that recommended surgery as the treatment of choice for medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy<sup>6</sup>. This session addressed issues relevant to increasing the availability of epilepsy surgery, particularly in countries with limited resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":91932,"journal":{"name":"Neurologisch : fachmagazin fur neurologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328585/pdf/nihms817099.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34776269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}