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Post-Operative Seizure Control In Patients With Glioblastoma, Ummey Hani, Muhammad Ammar Haider, Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim

Section of Neurosurgery

While the median survival in patients with glioblastoma has not improved significantly over the past decade, aggressive attempts have been made on palliation and improving quality of life in these patients. A confluence of two debilitating pathologies which massively distorts the normal day-to-day functioning of the patients who experience it, seizures in glioblastoma patients portends a poor prognosis. There exists a paucity of reported seizure outcomes after glioblastoma treatment in neurosurgical literature. Herein we present a review examining post-operative seizure control in patients with glioblastoma.