Neuropathology of focal epilepsies: an atlas

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ISBN : 0-86196-633-3
Printed in: English

A BOOK IN ENGLISH
Interdisciplinary co-operation between epileptologists, neuroradiologists, psychologists and neurosurgeons is the most fundamental prerequisite for localising and performing targeted resections of epileptogenic foci from patients with focal therapy-resistant epilepsy. Worldwide there has been a steady increase in the number of epilepsy surgery centres, and in the number of operations performed on children and babies.
A systematic neuropathological description is presented here involving macroscopic and histological findings.
In this book, a systematic documentation of characteristic as well as rarer alterations is presented involving 444 patients who had been operated on in Germany between 1990 and 1997 at the Bethel Epilepsy Centre in Bielefeld. It includes 257 patients with temporal lobes (TLE) and 187 patients with extratemporal epilepsy (ETE).
Contents:
- Introduction and description of the problem
- Definition, epidemiology and classification of epilepsies
- Historical overview of epilepsy surgery and morphological investigations of resected tissue
- Methodology
- Morphological findings on compartments from our own material
- Temporal lobe epilepsy
- Extratemporal epilepsy
- Characteristics of individual disease groups and conclusions regarding epilepsy onset, age at operation, and duration of epilepsy
- Aetiopathogenesis of focal seizures and summary
- Postoperative outcome
- Complications after epilepsy-surgical interventions and morphological alterations due to preoperative diagnosis
- Future perspectives
- Temporal lobe epilepsy: Case report
- Extratemporal lobe epilepsy: Case report
- Summarising table
- References