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Low-grade epilepsy-associated tumour management with or without presurgical evaluation: a multicentre, retrospective, observational study of postsurgical epilepsy outcome Volume 22, numéro 5, October 2020

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Auteurs
1 Clinic for Neurology, Medical School, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2 Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Neurology Department, University Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Romanian Brain Research Group, Romanian Academy
3 Epilepsy Surgery Center, Department of Neurosurgery, St. Ivan Rilski University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria
4 National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Juhasz Pál Epilepsy Center, Budapest, Hungary
5 Clinic for Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
* Correspondence: Aleksandar J. Ristić Clinic for Neurology, Medical School, University of Belgrade Dr Subotica 6, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Aims

Low-grade epilepsy-associated neuroepithelial tumours (LEATs) encompass the broad spectrum of tumours associated with epilepsy. Since the postsurgical seizure outcome in LEATs is favourable, it is speculated that epileptological presurgical evaluation (EPE) might not be required for patients with LEATs.