12 Wada Testing in Pediatric Epilepsy
10.1055/b-0034-84122 12 Wada Testing in Pediatric EpilepsyLoring, David W., Lee, Gregory P. The Wada test is an essential component of the pre-operative evaluation of epilepsy patients at most epilepsy surgery…
9 Functional MRI in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
10.1055/b-0034-84119 9 Functional MRI in Pediatric Epilepsy SurgeryBaldeweg, Torsten, Liégeois, Frédérique Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has rapidly entered the armory of imaging methods available for the management of patients…
6 Extra-operative and Intra-operative Electrical Stimulation
10.1055/b-0034-84116 6 Extra-operative and Intra-operative Electrical StimulationTuxhorn, Ingrid The surgical resection of epileptic tissue is an established treatment for patients with intractable focal epilepsy and has become an important field…
7 Magnetoencephalography
10.1055/b-0034-84117 7 MagnetoencephalographyOtsubo, Hiroshi, Ochi, Ayako, Snead, O. Carter III Localization-related epilepsy refractory to antiepileptic drugs in children is more often associated with an extratemporal epileptogenic focus than that seen…
4 EEG and Noninvasive Electrophysiological Monitoring
10.1055/b-0034-84114 4 EEG and Noninvasive Electrophysiological MonitoringEksioglu, Yaman, Riviello, James J. Jr. The goal of epilepsy surgery is to locate and resect the epileptic focus without losing any cortical function….
5 Invasive Electrophysiological Monitoring
10.1055/b-0034-84115 5 Invasive Electrophysiological MonitoringJayakar, Prasanna, Miller, Ian The primary goal of the presurgical evaluation for intractable epilepsy is to accurately define the epileptogenic region (ER). The ER is mainly…
3 Epilepsy Surgery for Congenital or Early Lesions
10.1055/b-0034-84112 3 Epilepsy Surgery for Congenital or Early LesionsMoosa, Ahsan N. V., Loddenkemper, Tobias, Wyllie, Elaine Identification of candidates for epilepsy surgery was originally derived from experience in adult and…
2 Intractable Epilepsy in Children and Selection of Surgical Candidates
10.1055/b-0034-84111 2 Intractable Epilepsy in Children and Selection of Surgical CandidatesEksioglu, Yaman, Riviello, James J. Jr. Surgery for childhood epilepsy is now considered an established treatment for medically refractory seizures.1–3…
1 Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery: Introduction
10.1055/b-0034-84110 1 Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery: IntroductionÇataltepe, Oğuz, Jallo, George I. An estimated 10.5 million children worldwide have epilepsy. The annual incidence is reported to be 61 to 124 per 100,000…
49 Picture Gallery
10.1055/b-0034-81426 49 Picture GalleryGoel, Atul, Goel, Naina Kataria These relatively unusual cases are collected from the database of craniovertebral junction–related pathology from the Department of Neurosurgery at K.E.M. Hospital in…
