UK ILAE Chapter, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom.
Epilepsia. 2013 May;54(5):e62-5. doi: 10.1111/epi.12148. Epub 2013 Mar 29.
All consultant epilepsy neurosurgeons were asked to prospectively record all epilepsy surgery procedures carried out at their center between April 2010 and March 2011. Figures were compared to a previous survey completed in 2000. Of a total of 710 procedures, temporal lobe surgery was the most common resective surgery. Although extratemporal lesional surgery was less common, vagus nerve stimulator (VNS) implantation accounted for almost half the procedures. The numbers for all surgical procedures, with the exception of VNS implantations, had decreased. This decrease may represent a global rather than a regional phenomenon. Further longitudinal multinational data on epilepsy surgery is required to confirm or refute this theory.
所有癫痫神经外科顾问医生被要求前瞻性地记录他们中心在 2010 年 4 月至 2011 年 3 月期间进行的所有癫痫手术。这些数字与 2000 年完成的一项先前调查进行了比较。在总共 710 例手术中，颞叶切除术是最常见的切除术。尽管非颞叶病变手术较少，但迷走神经刺激器（VNS）植入术几乎占了一半。除 VNS 植入术外，所有手术程序的数量都有所减少。这种减少可能代表的是一种全球性而非区域性现象。需要进一步的跨国纵向癫痫手术数据来证实或反驳这一理论。
