Schiltz Nicholas K, Fernandez-Baca Vaca Guadalupe
Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States.
Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, United States.
Epilepsy Res. 2018 May;142:179-181. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2018.01.013. Epub 2018 Feb 1.
Despite the fact that epilepsy surgery is both safe and effective, a considerable "surgical treatment gap" remains in that most persons who are eligible for surgery do not receive it. It has been argued that epilepsy surgery is one of the most underutilized of all accepted medical treatments in the world. In this article, we review the epidemiology of the epilepsy surgery treatment gap, and consider the role minimally-invasive epilepsy surgery may play in reducing this gap.
尽管癫痫手术既安全又有效,但仍存在相当大的“手术治疗差距”,即大多数符合手术条件的人并未接受手术。有人认为,癫痫手术是全球所有公认的医学治疗中未得到充分利用的治疗方法之一。在本文中,我们回顾了癫痫手术治疗差距的流行病学情况,并探讨了微创癫痫手术在缩小这一差距中可能发挥的作用。