Abstract:Background. Brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE) is an important and insufficiently studied interdisciplinary problem. In a significant part of brain tumor patients, the disease onsets with epileptic seizures. The course of tumor-associated epilepsy is often pharmacoresistant and requires rational polytherapy. To date, there are no uniform recommendations on the choice of an antiepileptic drug (AED) for the initial therapy of BTRE.Objective: retrospective analysis of the efficacy/tolerability of adjunctive ther… Show more
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