Epilepsy Surgery provides detailed information on the vital role of structural and functional neuroimaging in presurgical evaluation and surgical planning.
Contents
History of Pioneers of Surgery of Epilepsy
- History of Epilepsy Surgery: Introduction
- Contributions of Fedor Krause and Otfrid Foerster to Epilepsy Surgery
- Contributions of Jean Talairach and Jean Bancaud
- Contributions of Hugo Krayenbühl and M. Gazi Yasargil to Epilepsy Surgery
Overview
- Epidemiology of Intractable Epilepsy
- General Concepts of Medical Intractability
- Ethical Considerations: Informed Consent
- Cost, Accessibility, and Quality-of-Life Issues in Surgery of Epilepsy
Epileptic Syndromes Remediable by Epilepsy Surgery
- A New Approach for Classification of Epileptic Syndromes and Epileptic Seizures
- Mesial Temporal Lobe Sclerosis
- Neocortical Temporal Lope Epilepsy
- Lateral Frontal Lope Epilepsies
- Mesial Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
- Surgically Remediable Syndromes: Parieto-Occipital Epilepsy
- Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy in Infants
- Rasmussen's Syndrome
- The Hemispheric Epileptic Disorders: Indications for Hemispherectomy
- Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: A Surgically Remediable Epilepsy?
Presurgical Evaluation
- Preoperative Evaluation in Epilepsy Surgery: Some Principal Considerations
- General Principles of Presurgical Evaluation
Structural Neuroimaging
- Introduction to Structural Neuroimaging
- Neuroimaging of Brain Cortex Using Magnetic Resonance
- Neuroimaging of the Temporal Lobe
- Structural Neuroimaging in the Presurgical Evaluation of Patients with Malformations of Cortical Development and Neurocutaneous Syndromes
- Neoplastic Disorders, Vascular Abnormalities, and Other Disorders Causing Epilepsy
Functional Neuroimaging
- Positron Emission Tomography in Epilepsy Surgery Evaluation
- Evaluation of Epilepsies Using Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Ictal Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Cortical Mapping Using Transcranial Electromagnetic Stimulation
- Multimodality Imaging
- Future of Neuroimaging in Epilepsy Surgery
Design of an Intensive Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
- Architectural and System Planning
- Electroencephalographic Technology
- Nursing Care
- Computer Systems: Function and Integration
- Automatic Detection of Epileptic Seizures
- Digital Tools for Reviewing the Electroencephalogram: Montage Reformatting, Filtering, and Principal Component Analysis
- Source Localization and Imaging Techniques
- Tracking Clinical and Research Information
Noninvasive Electroencephalographic and Magnetoencephalographic Evaluation
- Interictal Electroencephalography in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Interictal Electroencephalography in Neocortical Epilepsy
- Long-Term Noninvasive Videoelectroencephalographic Monitoring in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Ictal Electroencephalography in Necortical Epilepsy
- Magnetoencephalography: Its Clinical Usefulness in Epilepsy Surgery
- Effect of Anticonvulsant Withdrawl on Seizure Semiology
- Effect of Anticonvulsant Withdrawl on Interictal and Ictal Electroencephalography
- Limitations of Noninvasive Electroencephalographic Evaluation
Neuropsychology and Psychiatry
- Presurgical Psychiatric Workup
- Overview: Presurgical Neuropsychological Evaluation
- Neuropsychological Correlates of Neuroimaging in Epilepsy Surgery
- Presurgical Neuropsychological Evaluation for Localization and Lateralization of the Epileptogenic Zone
- Risk Factors Associated with Postsurgical Decrements in Memory
- Neuropsychological Examination of Children and Mentally Retarded Adults with Epilepsy
- Event-Related Potentials in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Neuropsychological Evaluation in Epilepsy Surgery
Sodium Amobarbital Test
- Intracorotid Amobarbital Test to Define Language Lateralization
- Wada Testing to Define Hippocampal Function
- Use of the Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure in the Lateralization of the Epileptogenic Zone
- Reliability of the Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure
The Management Meeting
- The Patient Management Conference
Invasive Electroencephalography
- Indications for Invasive Videoelectroencephalographic Monitoring
- Indications for Invasive Videoelectroencephalographic Evaluation: Special Considerations in Children
- Foramen Ovale Electrodes
- Epidural Electrodes
- Subdural Electrodes
- Depth Electrodes
- Combined Use of Subdural and Depth Electrodes
Surgical Therapeutic Procedures
- Anesthesia for Epilepsy Surgery
- Cortical Mapping
- Electrocorticography
- Surgery for Mesial Temporal Sclerosis
- Surgery for Lesional Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Surgery for Neocortical Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- How to Select the Best Surgical Procedure for Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Surgical Treatment for Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
- The Transsylvian Functional Hemispherectomy: Patient Selection and Results
- Surgery for Parieto-Occipital Epilepsy
- Surgery for Neocortical Epilepsy
- Functional Hemispherectomy: Evolution of Technique and Results in 65 Cases
- From Hemispherectomy to Hemispherotomy
- Corpus Callosotomy
- Surgery for Epilepsy in Childhood
- How to Select the Best Surgical Procedure for Children with Epilepsy
- Epilepsy Surgery for Focal Malformations of Cortical Development
- Epilepsy Surgery for Tumors, Vascular Malformations, Trauma, and Cerebrovascular Disease
- Multiple Subpial Transection Versus Callosal Section in the Treatment of Experimentally Induced Cortical Focal Seizures
- Multiple Subpial Transections
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Epilepsy
- High-Frequency Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus in Epilepsy
- Role of Low-Level Direct Current in Quenching Amygdala-Kindled Seizure Development and Expression
Surgical Outcome
- Psychiatric Outcome
- Psychosocial Outcome Following Epilepsy Surgery: A Review of Controlled Studies
- Neuropsychological and Psychosocial Outcome in Children
- Subjective Evaluation of Postsurgical Neuropsychological Deficits
- Neurological Deficits After Resections of Neocortical Eloquent Areas
- Complications of Hemispherectomy
Postsurgical Management
- Postsrugical Pharmacotherapy: Discontinuation of Anticonvulsants
- Postsurgical Rehabilitation
Neuropathology and Research on Surgical Specimens
- Pathology of Cortical Dysplasia and Malformed Brain in Neurocutaneous Syndromes
- Pathology of Neoplastic Lesions Causing Epilepsy
- In vitro Electrophysiological Studies on the Mechanisms of Epileptogenesis Using Human and Animal Brain Slices
- Research on Neurotransmitters in Human Epileptic Hippocampus
Surgical Failures - Reoperataion
- Surgical Failures - Reoperation
Controversies in Epilepsy Surgery
- What Tests are Needed to Define the Epileptogenic Zone in Patients with Malformation of Cortical Development?
- Is Surgical Treatment Indicated in Patients with Bitemporal Lobe Epilepsy?
- Lesionectomy as a Treatment for Chronic Epilepsy: Is it Sufficient for a Good Outcome?
Appendices
- Protocols and Outcome Statistics from Epilepsy Surgery Centers
- Essentials for the Establishment of an Epilepsy Surgery Program
- Proposal for a New Classification of Outcome with Respect to Epileptic Seizures Following Epilepsy Surgery
- Classification of Surgical Outcome with Respect to Quality of Life
- Technological Requirements for Long-Term Monitoring
- Epilepsy Surgery in Patients with Nonlesional Focal Epilepsy
- Indications and Timing of Surgery of Catastrophic Epilepsy
Index
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