Operative Techniques in Epilepsy

• Main Author: Girvin, John P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Medicine & Public Health.

This book describes the specific surgical techniques currently employed in patients with intractable epilepsy; it also covers the relevant technical aspects of general neurosurgery. All of the approaches associated with the various foci of epilepsy within the cerebral hemispheres are considered, inc...

Table of Contents:

• Surgical techniques in epilepsy surgery
• Surgery under local anesthesia
• Electrocortical stimulation (“mapping”)
• Corticectomy
• Temporal lobe surgery
• Frontal lobe surgery
• Rolandic surgery
• Parietal lobe resections
• Occipital lobe resections.-Corpus Callosotomy.-Hemispherectomy.-Post-operative course
• History of epilepsy surgery.