Is psychiatric assessment essential for better epilepsy surgery outcomes?
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Psychiatric assessment of candidates for epilepsy surgery.
Patients with medically intractable epilepsy often present with comorbid psychiatric diseases. When referred to a program for the surgical treatment of the epilepsies, these patients benefit from a pre-admission psychiatric assessment with a view to lessen the chances of a psychiatric crisis during the pre- and postoperative investigations. This article proposes a practical approach to the psyc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.06.025