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Rates and predictors of success and failure in repeat epilepsy surgery: A meta‐analysis and systematic review

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Medically refractory epilepsy is a debilitating disorder that is particularly challenging to treat in patients who have already failed a surgical resection. Evidence regarding outcomes of further epilepsy surgery is… Click to show full abstract

Medically refractory epilepsy is a debilitating disorder that is particularly challenging to treat in patients who have already failed a surgical resection. Evidence regarding outcomes of further epilepsy surgery is limited to small case series and reviews. Therefore, our group performed the first quantitative meta‐analysis of the literature from the past 30 years to assess for rates and predictors of successful reoperations.

Keywords: epilepsy surgery; rates predictors; meta analysis

Journal Title: Epilepsia
Year Published: 2017

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