Extratemporal lobe epilepsy surgery / Mohamad Z. Koubeissi and Robert J. Maciunas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koubeissi, Mohamad Z.

Contributor:

Maciunas, Robert J.

Series:

Progress in epileptic disorders ; v. 10.

Progress in epileptic disorders / International Epilepsy Colloquium-Clevland, 1777-4284 ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epilepsy--Surgery.

Epilepsy.

Epileptics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montrouge, France : John Libbey Eurotext, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The theme of the Cleveland colloquium which took place in May 2010 was extratemporal lobe epilepsy surgery. Patients with refractory extratemporal lobe epilepsy, particularly those in whom imaging examinations did not reveal any brain lesions, have a less positive prognosis after surgery than those with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. The semiology of seizures, the functional imaging techniques, neuropsychological evaluation and intracranial EEG are used to select surgical patients. Moreover, a large number of centres have experimented with new methods for identifying the epileptogenic area in these patients. This work outlines diagnostic and prognostic tools available as well as epilepsy surgery. Written by international experts who attended the Cleveland colloquium, it will be all the more useful to neurologists, neurosurgeons and epileptologists as no other work until now has focused on this subject.

Contents:

section 1. Semiology of extratemporal epilepsy

section 2. Non-invasive neurophysiology of extratemporal lobe epilepsies

section 3. Neuroimaging of extra temporal lobe epilepsies

section 4. Invasive evaluation of extratemporal lobe epilepsies

section 5. Surgery and outcome of extratemporal lobe epilepsies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782742011803

2742011803