Citation | Clinical History | Physical Examination | Scalp Video/EEG Telemetry | Structural MRI | Neuropsychological Assessment | Neuropsychiatric Assessment | Social Care/Nursing Assessment (of support network) | fMRI | Wada Test | [18F] FDG-PET | Ictal SPECT | MEG | Intracranial EEG Electrodes | Realistic Expectation of Outcomes | MR Spectroscopy | Patient Management Conference | Occupational Evaluation |
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London, England 2011 [14] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | ✓ | |||
National Temporal Lobectomy Survey; United States 2009 [39] | 32–36.8% | 28.6–36.8% | 52–64.7% deemed essential | Considerable variation | Considerable variation | Considerable variation | nearly all inform of postoperative deficits | ||||||||||
Havana, Cuba 2009 [40] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Gainesville, Florida 2009 [41] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | ||||||||||
Munich, Germany 2009 [42] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Spanish Neurosurgical Society; Spain 2009 [43] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Kerala, India 2010 [37] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Cleveland, Ohio 2010 [38] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | ||||||||||
Phoenix, Arizona 2011 [44] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | ||||||||||
Oslo, Norway 2012 [45] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | ✓ | Ancillary | ||||
Toronto, Canada 2012 [46] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | |||||||
Italian League Against Epilepsy; Italy 2013 [4] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | |||||||||
Ankara, Turkey 2014 [47] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | ✓ | |||||||||
Japan 2016 [48] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ancillary | Ancillary | Ancillary | ||||||||||
Listed as Required | 10/13 | 6/13 | 13/13 | 13/13 | 11/13 | 7/13 | 2/13 | 7/13 | 6/13 | 3/13 | 3/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 | 3/13 | 2/13 | 2/13 | 2/13 |
Listed as Ancillary | 0/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 | 1/13 | 2/13 | 9/13 | 9/13 | 6/13 | 8/13 | 0/13 | 1/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 |