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The Surgical Management of Epilepsy Allen R. Wyler

The Surgical Management of Epilepsy By Allen R. Wyler

The Surgical Management of Epilepsy by Allen R. Wyler


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A complete reference on all aspects of epilepsy surgery. This book's coverage includes epidemiology, neuropathology, neurochemistry, neuroimaging, surgical procedures, and psychiatric assessment.

The Surgical Management of Epilepsy Summary

The Surgical Management of Epilepsy by Allen R. Wyler

A complete reference on all aspects of epilepsy surgery. This book's coverage includes epidemiology, neuropathology, neurochemistry, neuroimaging, surgical procedures, and psychiatric assessment. Over the past decade there has been an explosion in interest in epilepsy surgery and this is an edited text providing a detailed approach to the subject by selected experts in the field.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The prognosis of epilepsy: the natural course of epilepsy - an epidemiologic perspective; epileptic syndromes and their prognosis; who should consider epilepsy surgery?; medical failure in the treatment of epilepsy. Part 2 Preoperative evaluation: physical and chemical methods of activating the epileptic focus; long-term monitoring with scalp and sphenoidal electrodes; chronic intracranial monitoring techniques; functional mapping of language abilities with subdural electrode grids; the role of neuropsychological assessment in the presurgical evaluation of the epilepsy surgery patient; psychiatric evaluation of patients with unilateral temporal lobectomy for epilepsy; intracarotid amobarbital assessment; neuroimaging in evaluation of patients for surgery. Part 3 Surgical procedures: focal cortical resections; corpus callosotomy; hemispherectomy; selective amygdalohippocampectomy; pediatric epilepsy surgery - special considerations; intraoperative electrocorticography and functional mapping. Part 4 Outcome: outcome with respect to seizure frequency; neuropsychological outcome of anterior temporal lobectomy; psychiatric assessment and temporal lobectomy; vocational outcome; reoperation for failed epilepsy surgery.

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GOR013458800
9780750694162
0750694165
The Surgical Management of Epilepsy by Allen R. Wyler
Used - Good
Hardback
Elsevier Health Sciences
19931206
416
N/A
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