Surgery in Epilepsy – How Advances in Human Neurology Can Benefit Veterinary Patients

  • Marios Charalambous University College London

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2016-02-09

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https://doi.org/10.18849/ve.v1i1.19

Abstract

This article reports the evidence behind pre-surgical evaluation and epilepsy surgery in human patients with drug-resistant idiopathic epilepsy and how this could potentially form the basis for the treatment of canine drug-resistant epilepsy in the future.

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