Comparison of Hemispheric Surgery Techniques for Pediatric Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis.
Jia-Shu ChenWilliam B HarrisKatherine J WuH Westley PhillipsChi-Hong TsengAlexander G WeilAria FallahPublished in: Neurology (2023)
Among functional hemispherotomy techniques, vertical hemispherotomy approaches confer more durable seizure freedom than lateral approaches without compromising safety. Future prospective studies are required to definitively determine whether vertical approaches are indeed superior and how it should influence clinical guidelines for performing hemispheric surgery.
Keyphrases
- young adults
- drug resistant
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- systematic review
- multidrug resistant
- acinetobacter baumannii
- case control
- case report
- meta analyses
- surgical site infection
- electronic health record
- randomized controlled trial
- big data
- current status
- temporal lobe epilepsy
- machine learning
- data analysis
- coronary artery disease