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Informationen zum Autor André Olivier is W. Cone Professor of Neurosurgery, McGill University, and Neurosurgeon in Chief, Department of Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute and McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada. Warren W. Boling is Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Australia. Taner Tanriverdi is Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Turkey. Klappentext Reflecting the approach used at the Montreal Neurological Institute, this book presents the surgical techniques applicable to intractable epilepsies. Zusammenfassung This volume presents surgical techniques applied to epilepsy! focusing on the importance of mastering the trilogy of topographic! vascular and functional anatomy of the brain. Additionally! the basic anatomical and physiological mechanisms of epilepsy are practically discussed! aiding the formation of surgical hypotheses and the steps of surgical procedure. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgement; Preface; 1. History of epilepsy surgery; 2. The search of the epileptic focus: investigation of the surgical candidate; 3. Surgical anatomy; 4. Neuronavigation and preoperative brain mapping; 5. Stereoelectroencephalography (stereotactic intracranial recording); 6. Anaesthesia and awake procedure; 7. Preoperative cortical mapping; 8. Endopial resection (intervascular endopial gyral emptying); 9. Surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy: cortico-amygdalo-hippocampectomy; 10. Surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy: transcortical selective amygdalo-hippocampectomy; 11. Surgery of central area epilepsy; 12. Surgery of frontal lobe epilepsy; 13. Surgery of parietal lobe epilepsy; 14. Surgery of insular lobe epilepsy; 15. Surgery of occipital lobe epilepsy; 16. Hemispherectomy; 17. Callosotomy; 18. Epilepsy and brain tumours; 19. Surgical treatment of cortical dysplasias; 20. Reoperations in failed epilepsy surgery; 21. Alternate procedures; 22. Complications of epilepsy surgery; 23. Quality of life after epilepsy surgery; Index....
