title: How I do it - selective amygdalohippocampectomy via subtemporal approach.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Surgery is superior over medicamentous treatment of pharmacoresistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy caused by hippocampal sclerosis. The armamentarium of surgical procedures comprises standard temporal lobectomy and more selective procedures. Selective amygdalohippocampectomy can be performed via transcortical, transsylvian or subtemporal approach.
  
  
  METHODS
  Describe the selective amygdalohippocampectomy through the subtemporal approach
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After the detailed preoperative epilepsy evaluation, surgery can be offered to pharmacoresistant epilepsy patient with hippocampal sclerosis. Selective amygdalohippocampectomy can be safely performed through the subtemporal approach. The good knowledge of the mesial temporal lobe anatomy is necessary when performing this procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, "Sestre milosrdnice" University Hospital Center, Vinogradska cesta 29, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Tomislav
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sajko
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Skoro
authors.forename: Krešimir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rotim
mesh_terms: D000679:Amygdala / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D038481:Anterior Temporal Lobectomy / Q000379:methods; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012598:Sclerosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013702:Temporal Lobe; D016896:Treatment Outcome