Laser ablation as treatment strategy for medically refractory dominant insular epilepsy: Therapeutic and functional considerations

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 397-404

  Hawasli, Ammar H ^a   Bandt, S Kathleen ^a   Hogan, R Edward ^a   Werner, Nicole ^a   Leuthardt, Eric C ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominant hemisphere; Insula; Laser ablation; Laser interstitial thermal therapy; Medically refractory epilepsy; Minimally invasive surgery

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; GADOLINIUM; HARKOSERIDE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN DISEASE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DELTA RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; DRUG RESISTANT EPILEPSY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FLUENCY DISORDER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; INSULA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; METALLIC TASTE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICE; PERSEVERATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH; STEREOTACTIC DEVICE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERBAL MEMORY; AFFECT; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFFECT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84910051707     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: 14230372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000366001     Document Type: Article

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