Surgical techniques for investigating the role of the insula in epilepsy: a review
Atman Desai1, Kimon Bekelis, Terrance M Darcey
1Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA. atman.desai@hitchcock.org
Neurosurgical Focus
|March 3, 2012
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.


