Presurgical evaluation of temporal lobe epilepsy: Is an outpatient prolonged ambulatory EEG study sufficient to recommend a surgical resection?

Presurgical evaluation of temporal lobe epilepsy: Is an outpatient prolonged ambulatory EEG study sufficient to recommend a surgical resection?

Purpose: Inpatient Video EEG Monitoring (VEM) is the typical study performed in presurgical evaluations. It is expensive and not widely available in developing countries. Recent studies suggested that in selected patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy secondary to unilateral mesial temporal scl...

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Main Authors: Ada Chicharro, Alejandro de Marinis, Anna Milán, Daniel Mansilla, Alberto Prat, Alvaro Velásquez, Mónica González, Hernán Acevedo, Andrés M. Kanner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Epilepsy & Behavior Reports
Subjects:
Epilepsy surgery
Refractory temporal lobe epilepsy
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258998642030040X

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