ReviewAnnals of neurology2018
Getting the best outcomes from epilepsy surgery.
Review in Annals of neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT04553354 (Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Cortical Resections for Seizure Control for Patients With Drug Resistant Epilepsy), which is not on this map. Cited by 92 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Cortical Resections for Seizure Control for Patients With Drug Resistant Epilepsy
Who cites it
92 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 244 citations in OpenAlex.
- Factors predicting the response to vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in pediatric patients with drug- resistant epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025Pooled it
- Trends and hotspots of stereoelectroencephalogram from 2002 to 2023: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Parental experience and decision-making for epilepsy surgery: A systematic review of qualitative and quantitative studies.Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · 2021Pooled it
- Resective, Ablative and Radiosurgical Interventions for Drug Resistant Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Outcomes.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Pooled it
- Naming-related spectral responses predict neuropsychological outcome after epilepsy surgery.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Trial
- Comparison of robotic and manual implantation of intracerebral electrodes: a single-centre, single-blinded, randomised controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- The seizure embedding map: a spatio-temporal transformer for comparing patients by ictal intracranial EEG features at scale.Journal of neural engineering · 2026Article
- Microelectrode arrays enable directional stereo-EEG during kainate-mediated seizures.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Does having bad epilepsy make you a good surgical candidate? A number needed to treat analysis.Epilepsia open · 2026Review
- Passive neuromodulation: an energy-driven mechanism for closed-loop suppression of epileptic seizures.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Lateralization of FDG-PET Hypometabolism Using Resting-State fMRI in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Simultaneous PET-MRI Study.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2026Article
- Exploring the Role of TSPO-PET Imaging Among MRI-Negative Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: From the Perspective of Heterogeneity.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Epileptogenesis and Epilepsy Treatment: Advances in Mechanistic Understanding, Therapeutic Approaches, and Future Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Knowledge graph representation of the mappings between seizure semiology and epileptogenic zones.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Localizing the epileptogenic zone in drug-resistant epilepsy based on ictal SEEG high-resolution time-frequency representation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Adaptive neuromodulation dialogues: navigating current challenges and emerging innovations in neuromodulation system development.Journal of neural engineering · 2025Review
- Collapse of interictal suppressive networks permits seizure spread.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Multimodal contrastive learning on rs-fMRI to quantify whole-brain network recovery after hypothalamic hamartoma surgery.Biomedical engineering online · 2025Article
- The Seizure Embedding Map: A Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Comparing Patients by Ictal Intracranial EEG Features at Scale.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Neuroimaging of Ictal MEG: An Evaluation of Magnetic Source Imaging Techniques.Brain topography · 2025Article
32 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedErratum.2018
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Neurosurgery is an underutilized treatment that can potentially cure drug-refractory epilepsy. Careful, multidisciplinary presurgical evaluation is vital for selecting patients and to ensure optimal outcomes. Advances in neuroimaging have improved diagnosis and guided surgical intervention. Invasive electroencephalography allows the evaluation of complex patients who would otherwise not be candidates for neurosurgery. We review the current state of the assessment and selection of patients and consider established and novel surgical procedures and associated outcome data. We aim to dispel myths that may inhibit physicians from referring and patients from considering neurosurgical intervention for drug-refractory focal epilepsies. Ann Neurol 2018;83:676-690.
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