Techniques in epilepsy surgery the MNI approach

• Main Authors: Olivier, Andre 1938- (Author), Tanriverdi, Taner (Author), Boling, Warren W. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
• Series: Cambridge medicine
• Subjects: Epilepsy > surgery; Neurosurgical Procedures > methods; Brain > surgery
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"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 surger...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgement; Preface; History of epilepsy surgery
• The search of the epileptic focus: investigation of the surgical candidate
• Surgical anatomy
• Neuronavigation and preoperative brain mapping
• Stereoelectroencephalography (stereotactic intracranial recording)
• Anaesthesia and awake procedure
• Preoperative cortical mapping
• Endopial resection (intervascular endopial gyral emptying)
• Surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy: cortico-amygdalo-hippocampectomy
• Surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy: transcortical selective amygdalo-hippocampectomy
• Surgery of central area epilepsy
• Surgery of frontal lobe epilepsy
• Surgery of parietal lobe epilepsy
• Surgery of insular lobe epilepsy
• Surgery of occipital lobe epilepsy
• Hemispherectomy
• Callosotomy
• Epilepsy and brain tumours
• Surgical treatment of cortical dysplasias
• Reoperations in failed epilepsy surgery
• Alternate procedures
• Complications of epilepsy surgery
• Quality of life after epilepsy surgery.