Epilepsy Surgery and Intrinsic Brain Tumor Surgery

Konstantinos Fountas

Preoperative Evaluation: Non-invasive Methods.- Neurological examination & semiology.- Interpretation of conventional anatomical MRI.- Interpretation of proton MR spectroscopic imaging?.- Fractional Anisotropy and Diffusion Tensor Imaging as preoperative tools.- Functional MRI.- Nuclear medicine as a preoperative tool.- PET CT/MRI as a preoperative tool.- Magneto-Encephalography and Magnetic Source Imaging as preoperative tools.- Surface Encephalography and video-Encephalography.- High-density Encephalography as preoperative tool.- Transcranial magnetic source stimulation as preoperative tool.- Preoperative neuropsychological evaluation.- Preoperative Evaluation: Invasive Methods.- Invasive Electroencephalography with subdural/depth electrodes.- Stereo-Encephalography.- Extra-operative cortical stimulation and mapping.- Surgical Management:General considerations.- Intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring.- Awake procedures for cortical/subcortical mapping and monitoring.- Postoperative evaluation and follow-up.- Surgical Management: Epilepsy Surgical Procedures.- Neocortical resections.- Anterior temporal lobectomy and amygdalo-hippocampectomy.- Selective amygdalo-hippocampectomy.- Multiple subpial transections.- Corpus callosotomy.- Hemisherotomy.- Vagus nerve stimulation.- Deep brain stimulation.- Cortical stimulation.- G-knife in epilepsy.- Cyberknife in epilepsy.- Novel focal treatment modalities in epilepsy.- Surgical Management: Intrinsic Tumor Surgical Procedures.- Surgical resection techniques of frontal lobe tumors.- Surgical resection techniques of temporal lobe tumors.- Surgical resection techniques of central area tumors.- Surgical resection techniques of parietal lobe tumors.- Surgical resection techniques of occipital lobe tumors.- Surgical resection techniques of insular tumors.- Adjuvant treatment for intrinsic brain tumors.- Local interstitial chemotherapy.- Local interstitialbrachytherapy.- External radiation therapy.- Adjuvant stereotactic radiosurgery.- Systematic chemotherapy in intrinsic brain tumors.- Novel adjuvant focal therapies.- Monitoring for tumor recurrence.- Management of tumor recurrence.

"I recommend this book enthusiastically to residents, fellows, and faculty from different disciplines, including neuropsychology, radiology, neurology, and neurosurgery, who will all benefit (as I have) from reading this textbook cover-to-cover." (Jeffrey S. Raskin, Operative Neurosurgery, Vol. 18 (2), February, 2020)