title: Surgical techniques for investigating the role of the insula in epilepsy: a review.
abstract: Intracranial electroencephalography monitoring of the insula is an important tool in the investigation of the insula in medically intractable epilepsy and has been shown to be safe and reliable. Several methods of placing electrodes for insular coverage have been reported and include open craniotomy as well as stereotactic orthogonal and stereotactic anterior and posterior oblique trajectories. The authors review each of these techniques with respect to current concepts in insular epilepsy.
authors.affiliation: Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA. atman.desai@hitchcock.org
authors.forename: Atman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.forename: Kimon
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bekelis
authors.forename: Terrance M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Darcey
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004566:Electrodes; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed