Does stereotactic EEG-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation improve seizure frequency in drug-resistant patients with epilepsy for whom conventional resection surgery is risky or contraindicated?
SEEG-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulations offer a palliative option to improve seizure frequency in drug-resistant epilepsy patients who are poor candidates for conventional resection.
This study suggests that stereotactic EEG-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulations can be proposed only as a palliative procedure, able to bring a substantial improvement of seizure frequency, to drug-resistant patients with epilepsy for whom conventional resection surgery is risky or contraindicated on the basis of invasive presurgical evaluation.
Catenoix et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
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