Epilepsy surgery is an efficacious elective treatment for pharmacoresistant epilepsies [1,2]. Following comprehensive presurgical evaluation [3], patients are counseled with regard to the chances and risks of surgical treatment. This is essential for informed decision making [1]. At the University of Bonn Epilepsy Center which is conducting up to120 epilepsy surgeries per year since 1988 [4], a team of trained epileptologists explicitly estimates the individual chances of getting seizure free after surgery which is communicated to the patient (e.g.
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