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Focal Cortical Resection and Hippocampectomy in a Cat With Drug-Resistant Structural Epilepsy
Epilepsy surgery is a common therapeutic option in humans with drug-resistant epilepsy. However, there are few reports of intracranial epilepsy surgery for naturally occurring epilepsy in veterinary medicine.
Daisuke Hasegawa +8 more
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The temporal pole (TP) plays a central role in semantic memory, yet its neural machinery is unknown. Intracerebral recordings in patients discriminating visually the gender or actions of an actor, yielded gender discrimination responses in the ...
P. Tiesinga +5 more
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Backgrounds: Epilepsy surgery is the most efficacious therapeutic modality for patients with medical refractory epilepsy, especially resective surgery. However, the variable etiologies and multiple epileptic foci are usually associated with the outcomes.
Hsiang-Yao Hsieh +12 more
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Epilepsy surgery is assuming greater importance in treating patients with partial epilepsy whose seizures are uncontrolled with antiepileptic drugs. Many good candidates for surgical treatment are not presented with the option of surgery. The evaluation for epilepsy surgery is extensive and includes several stages of noninvasive and invasive testing ...
O, Devinsky, S, Pacia
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Age at onset of epilepsy is an important predictor of deterioration in naming ability following epilepsy surgery. In 141 patients with left hemispheric epilepsy and language dominance who received epilepsy surgery at the Epilepsy Centre Erlangen, naming ...
Caroline Reindl +17 more
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Insular Involvement in Cases of Epilepsy Surgery Failure
Background: Epilepsy surgery failure is not uncommon, with several explanations having been proposed. In this series, we detail cases of epilepsy surgery failure subsequently attributed to insular involvement.
Jimmy Li +6 more
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Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy in Semarang,Indonesia: The first 56 patients with follow up longer than 12 months [PDF]
Until October 2005, surgery were performed for 76 intractable temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Among them, 56 patients had follow-up of 12-76 months. The patients consisted of 35 males and 21 females,age between 3-38 year-old.
Muttaqin, Zainal
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Researchers have widely acknowledged the therapeutic value of epilepsy surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy. Nonetheless, there is a substantial gap in the surgical treatment for appropriate candidates owing to several factors, particularly in the ...
Lixin Cai +14 more
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Neurosurgery for intractable epilepsy in pregnancy: A case report
We describe the management of a 39-year-old woman with intractable focal epilepsy whose condition deteriorated during pregnancy and who required emergency neurosurgery.
Claire Behan +8 more
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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the surgical procedures that have slowly developed over the past 60 years to control or ameliorate epilepsy fall into two groups based upon separate hypotheses. The neurophysiological basis for either type of procedure is not clear. The occurrence of epilepsy is not related solely to the local situation in one
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