Zhuo-Ran Yin, Hui-Cong Kang, Wei Wu, Min Wang, Sui-Qiang Zhu
The neuroimaging results of drug-resistant epilepsy patients play an important role in the surgery decision and prognosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of these results on the efficacy of epilepay surgery, and then to explore surgical benefit for epilepsy patients with negative magnetic resonance (MR) images. Twenty-four subgroups describing the outcomes of 1475 epilepsy patients with positive-neuroimaging results and 696 patients with negative-neuroimaging results were involved in the meta-analysis...
April 2013: Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Medical Sciences