When is a postoperative seizure equivalent to “epilepsy recurrence” after epilepsy surgery?

Purpose:  Up to one‐half of epilepsy surgery patients will have at least one seizure after surgery. We aim to characterize the prognosis following a first postoperative seizure, and provide criteria allowing early identification of recurrent refractory epilepsy.

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