Radiosurgery for epilepsy: Clinical experience and potential antiepileptic mechanisms

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-15

  Quigg, Mark ^a   Rolston, John ^b   Barbaro, Nicholas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Gamma Knife; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Partial seizure; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; COBALT 60; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; YTTRIUM 90;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NECROSIS; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HAMARTOMA; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNEURON; IONIZING RADIATION; KINDLING; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MEMORY DISORDER; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPILLEDEMA; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON BEAM ACCELERATOR; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; REMISSION; REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SUDDEN DEATH; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; RADIOSURGERY; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855446729     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03339.x     Document Type: Review

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