A pictoral guide to pediatric epilepsy surgery.
This article contains a discussion and detailed pictorial account of diagnostic and neurosurgical therapeutic procedures used to help pediatric patients who have medically intractable epilepsy. The operations discussed are placement of sphenoidal electrodes, strips and grids, temporal and extratemporal resections, corpus callosotomy, and hemispherectomy.
Iskandar
B J
BJ
Department of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison 53792, USA.
Ramirez
L F
LF
D002648:Child; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*