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Network Analysis of Foramen Ovale Electrode Recordings in Drug-resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients
Published on: December 18, 2016
Experiences of awake surgery in non-tumoural epilepsy in eloquent localizations
Patrick Vigren1, Martin Eriksson2, Hugues Duffau3
1Department of Neurology, Linköping University Hospital, Region Östergötland, Sweden; Department of Neurosurgery, Linköping University Hospital, Region Östergötland, Sweden; Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Background:
Whilst modern awake intraoperative mapping has been widely accepted and implemented in the last decades in neuro-oncology, sparse reports have been published on the safety and efficiency of this approach in epilepsy surgery.
Method:
This article reports four cases with different locations of epileptogenic zones as examples of possible safe and efficient resections.
Result:
The results of the resections on seizure control were Engel 1 (no disabling seizures) in all cases and no patient experienced significant neurological deficits.
Discussion:
The discussion focuses on aspects of the future of epilepsy surgery in a hodotopical paradigm.
