ArticleEpilepsia2025
Epilepsy surgery education and practice around the globe: An ILAE taskforce report.
Article in Epilepsia, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Enablers of Sustainable Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery: A Qualitative Exploration of Global Neurosurgery.Neurosurgery practice · 2026Article
- Clinician knowledge gaps in epilepsy surgery: An international survey across 18 countries or regions in Asia-Oceania.Epilepsia · 2026Article
- Assessing Knowledge and Awareness of Epilepsy Surgery in Healthcare Students and Interns at King Abdulaziz University.Behavioural neurology · 2026Article
- Hemispherotomy for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in a Low-Resource Setting: Surgical Outcomes and Quality of Life in 23 Children Treated in a Hybrid Program in Panama.Pediatric neurosurgery · 2026Article
- The Top 100 Most Cited Articles on Epilepsy Surgery: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature.Cureus · 2025Review
- Epilepsy Surgery in Kazakhstan: Outcomes and the Role of Advanced Imaging.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- A curriculum for epilepsy surgery: A report from the Surgical Commission's Epilepsy Surgery Educational Task Force and the Educational Council of the ILAE.Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape · 2025Article
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Abstract
Up to 80% of the world's population with epilepsy lives in low and middle-income countries. Around one-third of these patients will have drug-resistant epilepsy, for which epilepsy surgery is an option. Unfortunately, many of these regions, as well as some more developed nations, lack sufficient epilepsy surgery units and trained neurosurgeons. With this in mind, the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) formed the Epilepsy Surgery Education Taskforce to address the shortage of further educational opportunities for surgeons and neurologists and to promote the creation of more epilepsy surgery units around the world. In this article, we publish our findings from a web-based international survey, in which we investigated the global distribution and experience of neurosurgeons who perform epilepsy surgery, their educational paths, and opinions on the further need for epilepsy surgery education, as well as the resources available to them. We report a detailed analysis of the 202 survey replies received from 35 different countries across six continents. The lack of adequate numbers of epilepsy surgery units in the Southern Hemisphere is notable, and the aim of this task force with other ILAE committees, is to improve access to epilepsy surgery for patients and to enhance training for their health care providers.
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