Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

Download or read book Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery written by Nejat Akalan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this volume cover recent advances and changing concepts on diagnosis and treatment of resistant epilepsy in children. Topics treated are new insights on mechanisms of epileptogenesis in developing brain, multimodality imaging in pediatric intractable epilepsy, pediatric intractable epilepsy syndromes, pediatric temporal lobe epilepsy surgery, critical review of palliative surgical techniques for intractable epilepsy, treatment modalities for intractable epilepsy in hypothalamic hamartomas, contemporary management of epilepsy in tuberous sclerosis.