Epilepsy Surgery and Intrinsic Brain Tumor Surgery: A Practical Atlas

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
 Brain-Tumor Related Epilepsy  (Efthimios Dardiotis, Maria Sokratous, Katerina Markou, Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou)....Pages 1-7
 The Role of Diffusion Weighted and Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Epilepsy  (Dimitra Tsivaka, Patricia Svolos, Eftychia Z. Kapsalaki, Ioannis Tsougos)....Pages 9-23
 Functional MRI in Epilepsy  (Sotirios Bisdas, Ayisha Al-Busaidi, Laura Mancini, Annie Papadaki, Loizos Siakallis, Adam Kenji Yamamoto)....Pages 25-44
 Imaging with PET/CT in Patients with Epilepsy  (Nikoletta Pianou, Sofia Chatziioannou)....Pages 45-50
 Applications of Magnetoencephalography in Epilepsy and Tumor Surgery  (Panagiotis G. Simos, Roozbeh Rezaie, Andrew C. Papanicolaou)....Pages 51-65
 Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Planning Epilepsy Surgery  (Pantelis Lioumis, Jyrki P. Mäkelä)....Pages 67-74
 Neuropsychological Evaluation of Patients with Intrinsic Brain Tumors   (Cristina Ramirez-Aubone, Gregory P. Lee)....Pages 75-88
 Intracranial Electrode Investigations in the Presurgical Evaluation of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy  (Kyriakos Garganis)....Pages 89-106
 Invasive Electroencephalography in Epilepsy  (Demitre Serletis)....Pages 107-114
 Stereo-Electroencephalography (SEEG) in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Medically Intractable Epilepsy  (João Paulo Sant’Ana Santos de Souza, Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez)....Pages 115-125
 Extraoperative Cortical Stimulation and Mapping  (Konstantinos N. Fountas, Joseph R. Smith)....Pages 127-136
 Awake Craniotomy: Cortical and Subcortical Mapping for Glioma Resection  (Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper, Mitchel S. Berger)....Pages 137-145
 Neocortical Resections  (Hans Clusmann)....Pages 147-163
 Anterior Temporal Lobectomy and Amygdalo-Hippocampectomy  (Antonio Gonçalves-Ferreira)....Pages 165-173
 Selective Amygdalohippocampectomy  (Dirk Van Roost)....Pages 175-182
 Radiating Multiple Subpial Transection: Operative Techniques, Complications and Outcomes  (Dorota Tassigny, Riëm El Tahry, Géraldo Vaz, Susana Ferrao Santos, Kenou van Rijckevorsel, Christian Raftopoulos)....Pages 183-188
 Corpus Callosotomy  (Stephen K. Mendenhall, Rahul K. Ahluwalia, Nicholas M. Barbaro)....Pages 189-196
 Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Refractory Epilepsy  (Tomislav Sajko, Krešimir Rotim)....Pages 197-204
 Responsive Stimulation in the Management of Medically Refractory Epilepsy  (Robert A. McGovern, Garrett P. Banks, Guy M. McKhann II)....Pages 205-211
 Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Drug-Refractory Epilepsy  (Pantaleo Romanelli, Alfredo Conti)....Pages 213-223
 Surgical Resection Techniques of Central Area Gliomas  (Michael Sabel, Marion Rapp, Maria Smuga, Marcel A. Kamp)....Pages 225-237
 Surgical Management of Occipital Gliomas  (Thanasis Paschalis, Konstantinos N. Fountas)....Pages 239-244
 Surgical Resection Techniques of Insular Gliomas  (Abraham Tsitlakidis, Nicolas Foroglou)....Pages 245-259
 Systemic Chemotherapy in Brain Gliomas  (George A. Alexiou, Athanasios P. Kyritsis)....Pages 261-267
 Novel Focal Treatment Modalities in Glioma Management  (Shamik Chakraborty, Katherine Wagner, John Boockvar, Michael Schulder)....Pages 269-279
 Management of Glial Tumor Recurrence  (Konstantinos N. Fountas, Eftychia Z. Kapsalaki)....Pages 281-291
Back Matter ....Pages 293-301