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Surgery for epilepsy

edited by Susan S. Spencer and Dennis D. Spencer

(Contemporary issues in neurological surgery)

Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book discusses the latest changes in and the wide variety of surgical procedures in the treatment of epilepsy. The editors have brought together specialists in many different areas of epilepsy surgery who discuss surgical treatments and examine the numerous methods of approaching each procedure, carefully considering the risks and special merits of each. This book is intended for neurosurgeons and neurologists.

Table of Contents

  • Part I: Selection: What is uncontrolled epilepsy, and who should be referred for surgery? Approaches to patient selection for resective procedures
  • Intracranial recording
  • Selection of patients for corpus callosum section
  • Epilepsy surgery: special considerations in children
  • Part II: Surgery: Temporal lobectomy
  • Extratemporal resections in the surgical treatment of epilepsy
  • Corpus callosum section
  • Part III: Outcome: Dogma, data, and directions.

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