Changing concepts in presurgical assessment for epilepsy surgery

M Zijlmans, W Zweiphenning, N Van Klink - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019‏ - nature.com
Candidates for epilepsy surgery must undergo presurgical evaluation to establish whether
and how surgical treatment can stop seizures without causing neurological deficits. Various …

Epilepsy surgery in children and adults

P Ryvlin, JH Cross, S Rheims - The Lancet Neurology, 2014‏ - thelancet.com
Epilepsy surgery is the most effective way to control seizures in patients with drug-resistant
focal epilepsy, often leading to improvements in cognition, behaviour, and quality of life …

MRI‐negative temporal lobe epilepsy—What do we know?

W Muhlhofer, YL Tan, SG Mueller, R Knowlton - Epilepsia, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common focal epilepsy in adults. TLE has a high
chance of becoming medically refractory, and as such, is frequently considered for further …

The evolution of epilepsy surgery between 1991 and 2011 in nine major epilepsy centers across the United States, Germany, and Australia

L Jehi, D Friedman, C Carlson, G Cascino, S Dewar… - …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objective Epilepsy surgery is the most effective treatment for select patients with drug‐
resistant epilepsy. In this article, we aim to provide an accurate understanding of the current …

A modern epilepsy surgery treatment algorithm: Incorporating traditional and emerging technologies

DJ Englot - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Epilepsy surgery has seen numerous technological advances in both diagnostic and
therapeutic procedures in recent years. This has increased the number of patients who may …

Neurological update: structural and functional imaging in epilepsy surgery

K Yoganathan, N Malek, E Torzillo, M Paranathala… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Springer
Structural and functional imaging prior to surgery in drug-resistant focal epilepsy, has an
important role to play alongside electroencephalography (EEG) techniques, in planning the …

Decision‐making in stereotactic epilepsy surgery

KJ Miller, AL Fine - Epilepsia, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Surgery can cure or significantly improve both the frequency and the intensity of seizures in
patients with medication‐refractory epilepsy. The set of diagnostic and therapeutic …

Planning and management of SEEG

F Chassoux, V Navarro, H Catenoix, L Valton… - Neurophysiologie …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) aims to define the epileptogenic zone (EZ), to study
its relationship with functional areas and the causal lesion and to evaluate the possibility of …

Evidence on use of neuroimaging for surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy: a systematic review

AL Jones, GD Cascino - JAMA neurology, 2016‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance Surgery is an effective treatment for drug-resistant focal epilepsy. Neuroimaging
studies are considered essential in the diagnostic evaluation of individuals with medically …

Predicting epilepsy surgery outcome

P Ryvlin, S Rheims - Current opinion in neurology, 2016‏ - journals.lww.com
These provocative findings appear to partly reflect the advances in the optimal use or
postprocessing of neuroimaging data, as well as the identification of temporal plus epilepsy …