This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide for the safe and efficient management of patients with intrinsic brain tumors and medically intractable epilepsy. It presents in an easily understandable way the preoperative evaluation of these patients, starting from the clinical interpretation of conventional anatomical MR imaging and analyses the clinical significance of newer MR based imaging techniques such as diffusion and perfusion imaging.

It demonstrates with clarity the role of MR spectroscopy and fractional anisotropy and diffusion tensor imaging in the preoperative assessment of these patients and how this data can be incorporated into the surgical planning.

This book is aimed at neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neurologists, and epileptologists, and may also be of interest to neuropsychologists, neurophysiologists, radiation oncologists, and medical physicists.


Table of contents (26 chapters)

Brain-Tumor Related Epilepsy

Dardiotis, Efthimios (et al.)

Pages 1-7

The Role of Diffusion Weighted and Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Epilepsy

Tsivaka, Dimitra (et al.)

Pages 9-23

Functional MRI in Epilepsy

Bisdas, Sotirios (et al.)

Pages 25-44

Imaging with PET/CT in Patients with Epilepsy

Pianou, Nikoletta (et al.)

Pages 45-50

Applications of Magnetoencephalography in Epilepsy and Tumor Surgery

Simos, Panagiotis G. (et al.)

Pages 51-65

Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Planning Epilepsy Surgery

Lioumis, Pantelis (et al.)

Pages 67-74

Neuropsychological Evaluation of Patients with Intrinsic Brain Tumors

Ramirez-Aubone, Cristina (et al.)

Pages 75-88

Intracranial Electrode Investigations in the Presurgical Evaluation of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

Garganis, Kyriakos

Pages 89-106

Invasive Electroencephalography in Epilepsy

Serletis, Demitre

Pages 107-114

Stereo-Electroencephalography (SEEG) in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Medically Intractable Epilepsy

Souza, Jo o Paulo Sant'Ana Santos (et al.)

Pages 115-125

Extraoperative Cortical Stimulation and Mapping

Fountas, Konstantinos N. (et al.)

Pages 127-136

Awake Craniotomy: Cortical and Subcortical Mapping for Glioma Resection

Hervey-Jumper, Shawn L. (et al.)

Pages 137-145

Neocortical Resections

Clusmann, Hans

Pages 147-163

Anterior Temporal Lobectomy and Amygdalo-Hippocampectomy

Gonçalves-Ferreira, Antonio

Pages 165-173

Selective Amygdalohippocampectomy

Roost, Dirk

Pages 175-182

Radiating Multiple Subpial Transection: Operative Techniques, Complications and Outcomes

Tassigny, Dorota (et al.)

Pages 183-188

Corpus Callosotomy

Mendenhall, Stephen K. (et al.)

Pages 189-196

Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Refractory Epilepsy

Sajko, Tomislav (et al.)

Pages 197-204

Responsive Stimulation in the Management of Medically Refractory Epilepsy

McGovern, Robert A. (et al.)

Pages 205-211

Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Drug-Refractory Epilepsy

Romanelli, Pantaleo (et al.)

Pages 213-223

Surgical Resection Techniques of Central Area Gliomas

Sabel, Michael (et al.)

Pages 225-237

Surgical Management of Occipital Gliomas

Paschalis, Thanasis (et al.)

Pages 239-244

Surgical Resection Techniques of Insular Gliomas

Tsitlakidis, Abraham (et al.)

Pages 245-259

Systemic Chemotherapy in Brain Gliomas

Alexiou, George A. (et al.)

Pages 261-267

Novel Focal Treatment Modalities in Glioma Management

Chakraborty, Shamik (et al.)

Pages 269-279