Less is more: Novel less-invasive surgical techniques for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy that minimize cognitive impairment

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 182-191

  Gross, Robert E ^a,b   Mahmoudi, Babak ^a   Riley, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser ablation; Laser interstitial thermal therapy; Radiofrequency ablation; Selective amygdalohippocampectomy; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTINGENT STIMULATION; DIRECT ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPAL DISCONNECTION; HIPPOCAMPAL MULTIPLE SUBPIAL TRANSECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INDIRECT ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; LASER SURGERY; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEUROSURGERY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC LASER ABLATION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84926302538     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0000000000000176     Document Type: Review

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