Techniques in epilepsy surgery the MNI approach

Techniques in Epilepsy Surgery presents the operative procedures used in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in a practical, clinically relevant manner. Founded by pioneering neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) is a leading global centre of epilepsy surgery and...

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1. Verfasser: Olivier, André 1938- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1 History of epilepsy surgery
  • 2 The search for the epileptic focus: investigation of the surgical candidate
  • 3 Surgical anatomy
  • 4 Neuronavigation and preoperative brain mapping
  • 5 Stereoelectroencephalography (stereotactic intracranial recording)
  • 6 Anesthesia and awake procedure
  • 7 Peroperative brain mapping
  • 8 Endopial resection (intervascular endopial gyral emptying)
  • 9 Surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy: cortico-amygdalohippocampectomy
  • 10 Surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy: transcortical selective amygdalohippocampectomy
  • 11 Surgery of central area epilepsy
  • 12 Surgery of frontal lobe epilepsy
  • 13 Surgery of parietal lobe epilepsy
  • 14 Surgery of insular lobe epilepsy
  • 25 Surgery of occipital lobe epilepsy
  • 16 Hemispherectomy
  • 17 Callosotomy
  • 18 Epilepsy and brain tumors
  • 19 Surgical treatment of cortical dysplasias
  • 20 Reoperations in failed epilepsy surgery
  • 21 Alternative procedures in surgery for epilepsy
  • 22 Complications of epilepsy surgery
  • 23 Quality of life after epilepsy surgery