Epilepsy Surgery and Intrinsic Brain Tumor Surgery: A Practical Atlas

Description:

This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide for the safe and efficient management of patients with intrinsic brain tumors and medically intractable epilepsy. It presents in an easily understandable way the preoperative evaluation of these patients, starting from the clinical interpretation of conventional anatomical MR imaging and analyses the clinical significance of newer MR based imaging techniques such as diffusion and perfusion imaging. It demonstrates with clarity the role of MR spectroscopy and fractional anisotropy and diffusion tensor imaging in the preoperative assessment of these patients and how this data can be incorporated into the surgical planning. This book is aimed at neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neurologists, and epileptologists, and may also be of interest to neuropsychologists, neurophysiologists, radiation oncologists, and medical physicists.

Table of Contents:

1. Brain-Tumor Related Epilepsy

2. The Role of Diffusion Weighted and Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Epilepsy

3. Functional MRI in Epilepsy

4. Imaging with PET/CT in Patients with Epilepsy

5. Applications of Magnetoencephalography in Epilepsy and Tumor Surgery

6. Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Planning Epilepsy Surgery

7. Neuropsychological Evaluation of Patients with Intrinsic Brain Tumors

8. Intracranial Electrode Investigations in the Presurgical Evaluation of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

9. Invasive Electroencephalography in Epilepsy

10. Stereo-Electroencephalography (SEEG) in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Medically Intractable Epilepsy

11. Extraoperative Cortical Stimulation and Mapping

12. Awake Craniotomy: Cortical and Subcortical Mapping for Glioma Resection

13. Neocortical Resections

14. Anterior Temporal Lobectomy and Amygdalo-Hippocampectomy

15. Selective Amygdalohippocampectomy

16. Radiating Multiple Subpial Transection: Operative Techniques, Complications and Outcomes

17. Corpus Callosotomy

18. Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Refractory Epilepsy

19. Responsive Stimulation in the Management of Medically Refractory Epilepsy

20. Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Drug-Refractory Epilepsy

21. Surgical Resection Techniques of Central Area Gliomas

22. Surgical Management of Occipital Gliomas

23. Surgical Resection Techniques of Insular Gliomas

24. Systemic Chemotherapy in Brain Gliomas

25. Novel Focal Treatment Modalities in Glioma Management

26. Management of Glial Tumor Recurrence

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