This collection of epilepsy surgical cases illustrates patients with straightforward and challenging pharmacoresistant epilepsy. These cases convey the advancements, investigative strategies, past and modern surgical tools, and sophisticated state-of-the-art of epilepsy surgery and its disciplines.
This textbook is organized into four major sections that parallel the contemporary FDA-approved and clinically applicable approaches: resective surgery, disconnection procedures, laser therapy, and neuromodulation. The chapters provide a case-based, interactive, and multidisciplinary integrative approach to pre-operative evaluation, data analysis, and surgical decision-making. In addition, we present alternative approaches to certain diagnostic tools, decision-making strategies, and surgical interventions.
This textbook will provide trainees and clinicians with an exhaustive understanding of epilepsy surgery. Moreover, it will be an invaluable resource for preparation for the epilepsy board examination
Epilepsy Surgery Evaluation.- Dominant, lesional mesial temporal lobe
epilepsy.- Non-dominant, Lesional Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.-
Non-dominant, Non-lesional Mesial Temporal Epilepsy.- Dominant, Lesional
Temporal Pole Epilepsy.- Non-dominant, Lesional Neocortical Temporal Lobe
Epilepsy.- Dominant, Lesional Post-Traumatic Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.-
Non-dominant Tumor-related Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.- Non-dominant Temporal
Lobe Epilepsy due to Dual Pathology.- Non-dominant, Lesional Frontal Lobe
Epilepsy Involving the Prefrontal Cortex.- Non-dominant Lesional
Parieto-occipital Epilepsy.- Rasmussens Encephalitis and Focal Cortical
Dysplasia.- Non-dominant, Non-lesional insular epilepsy.- Hypothalamic
Hamartoma.- .Non-dominant, Lesional Frontal Lobe Epilepsy Masquerading as
Generalized Epilepsy.- Non-dominant Lesional Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.-
Non-dominant Lesional Frontal and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.- Multifocal
Epilepsy and Non-dominant Cingulate Lesion.- Multifocal Epilepsy and
Non-dominant Cingulate Lesion.- Non-dominant, Lesional Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
Overlapping with Motor Cortex.- Multifocal Epilepsy due to New Onset
Refractory Status Epilepticus.- Dominant and Lesional Pediatric-Onset
Hemispheric Epilepsy.- Non-dominant, Non-lesional Orbitofrontal-plus
Epilepsy.- Non-dominant and Non-lesional Temporal-Plus Epilepsy.-
Non-dominant, Lesional, Posterior Quadrant Epilepsy.- Non-dominant, Lesional
Hemispheric epilepsy.- Dominant Non-lesional Frontal and Parietal Lobes
Epilepsy.- Dominant Lesional Congenital Hemispheric Epilepsy.- Dominant
Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy due to Hippocampal Sclerosis.- Dominant
Tumor-Related Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.- Dominant Lesional Posterior
Quadrant Epilepsy.- Non-lesional Bilateral Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.-
Bilateral Lesional Epilepsy.- Dominant Lesional Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.-
Non-lesional Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.- Multifocal, Non-lesional Epilepsy.-
Acquired Lesional Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.- Future Perspectives.
Aline Herlopian, MDAssistant ProfessorYale University 15 York St, LCI-7 New Haven, CT 06510
