Surgical Treatment of Epilepsies

Description:

This book fills the gap between the increasing demand for epilepsy surgical experience and limited training facilities in this area. It comprehensively describes surgical techniques, including tricks and pitfalls, based on the author?€™s 30 years of experience, providing optimal and effective training for young neurosurgeons by avoiding learning by trial and error. Moreover, it also includes useful information for epileptologists and other professionals involved in the epilepsy surgical program to allow them to gain a better understanding of possibilities and limitations of epilepsy surgery.

Table of Contents:

1. History of Epilepsy Surgery

2. Epilepsy: Clinical, Epidemiological, and Therapeutical Aspects

3. Presurgical Evaluation

4. Surgical Tools and Techniques

5. Anesthesia

6. Temporal Lobe Resections

7. Extratemporal Resections

8. Hemispherical Procedures: Hemispherectomy/Hemispherotomy

9. Long-Term Epilepsy-Associated Tumors (LEATs)

10. MRI-Negative Epilepsies

11. Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

12. Reoperations After Failed Resective Surgery

13. Pathology in Epilepsy Surgery

14. Non-resective Epilepsy Surgery

15. Complications

16. Cost-Effectiveness of Epilepsy Surgery

17. The Current Place of Epilepsy Surgery

18. A Personal View