Introduction Intraoperative adjuncts of various kinds hold a very prominent and revered place in the modern neurosurgery armamentarium. In addition to routine frameless neuronavigation which is almost ubiquitously used, intraoperative…
Introduction Invasive monitoring can play a crucial role in the localization of seizure foci in children with drug-resistant epilepsy . Invasive monitoring is indicated in cases of focal epilepsy in…
Introduction Nearly a third of patients with epilepsy fail to respond to two or more appropriately selected and well-tolerated antiseizure medications and are diagnosed with drug-resistant epilepsy . Medication resistance…
Introduction A widely accepted indication to consider neurosurgical intervention for drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is after an adequate trial of two antiseizure medications (ASMs) has not achieved seizure control. This guideline…
Pediatric epilepsy surgery To date, there exists only one randomized controlled trial (RCT) for pediatric epilepsy surgery . This trial unequivocally demonstrated the superiority of surgery in providing seizure freedom…
Introduction Ependymomas are relatively rare intracranial tumors that account for 1% to 5% of central nervous system tumors and arise from ependymal lining of the ventricular system or spinal canal….
Introduction The primary cause of epileptic seizures in less developed countries is neurocysticercosis, which is caused when the larval stage of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium infects the central nervous…
Introduction Cerebral abscesses are a suppurative process within the brain parenchyma owing to inflammation and infection. The most common locations are the frontal, temporal, parietal, cerebellar, and occipital lobes, which…
Introduction Hemangioblastomas account for approximately 1.5% to 2.5% of all central nervous system tumors, and 7% to 8% of all posterior fossa tumors, but are the most common primary tumor…
Introduction Colloid cysts are rare intracranial tumors that are thought to be derived from an endodermal origin and represent 0.3% to 2% of all brain tumors. They account for 0.5%…
