A Prospective Study of the Requirement for and the Provision of Epilepsy Surgery in the United Kingdom

Purpose: Of the 30,000 persons in whom epilepsy develops annually in the United Kingdom, in ∼6000 (20%), intractability develops. Some of these patients will be appropriate for epilepsy surgery. We aimed to estimate the number of patients who should be considered surgical candidates, by extrapolatio...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Epilepsia (Copenhagen) 2003-05, Vol.44 (5), p.673-676
Hauptverfasser:	Lhatoo, Samden D., Solomon, Juliet K., McEvoy, Andrew W., Kitchen, Neil D., Shorvon, Simon D., Sander, Josemir W.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Biological and medical sciences Child Cohort Studies Community Health Planning - statistics & numerical data Craniotomy - statistics & numerical data Cross-Sectional Studies Epilepsy - epidemiology Epilepsy - surgery Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe - epidemiology Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe - surgery Female Follow-Up Studies Health Surveys Humans Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Needs Assessment - statistics & numerical data Neurosurgery Neurosurgery - statistics & numerical data Prospective Prospective Studies Skull, brain, vascular surgery State Medicine - statistics & numerical data Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases Treatment gap United Kingdom - epidemiology
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