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By
John Oxbury, PhD, FRCP
Charles Polkey, MD, FRCS
Michael Duchowny, MD
Contents
Oxbury et al Intractable focal epilepsy
1. Introduction
JM Oxbury, CE Polkey & M Duchowny
2. Diagnosis and clarification
JM
Oxbury and M Duchowny
3. Epidemiology of intractable focal epilepsy
PM Crawford
4. Death from intractable focal epilepsy
L
Nashef
5. Seizure symptoms and cerebral localization: frontal lobe and Rolandic seizures
F Bartolomei and P Chauvel
6.
Semiology of temporal lobe seizures
CE Elger
7. Parietal lobe epilepsy
PD Williamson
8. Occipital seizures
R
Guerrini, L Parmeggiani, E Berta and C Munari
9. Seizures associated with multilobar pathology
Z Zaiwalla
10. Malformations
of cortical development
SM Sisodiya, MV Squier and P Anslow
11. Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy syndrome with hippocampal
and amygdala
sclerosis
HG Wieser, M Hajek, A Gooss and A Aguzzi
12. Cerebral vascular disorders in adults
R Ali-Shahi and P Rothwell
13. Cerebral vascular disorders in children
JH Cross and FJ Kirkham
14.
Post-traumatic seizures and post-traumatic epilepsy
C Chandler
Tumours
Honovar, Holmes and Riviello (to be
confirmed)
16. Brain infections
JE Adcock and JM Oxbury
17. Neurocutaneous syndromes
BGR Neville
Rasmussen
syndrome
Y Hart and F Andermann
Non-vascular disorders of early childhood
J Aicardi
Idiopathic focal epilepsies of
childhood
AS Harvey
21. Adult idiopathic and cryptogenic focal epilepsies
RC Roberts
22. LandauKleffner syndrome
BGR
Neville, V Burch, H Cass, and J Lees
Partial seizures in West syndrome
S Weiss and OC Snead III
Diagnostic neuroradiology
Anslow
(to be confirmed)
25. Diagnostic positron emission tomography
JR Shah, DC Chugani, HT Chugani
26. Single-photon emisson
computed tomography in focal epilepsies
R Duncan
Neuropsychologic investigations of adults
RP Kennett
Invasive neuropsychologic
evaluation of partial epilepsy in children
P Jayakar and M Duchowny
Magnetoencephalography in intractable focal epilepsy
H
Stefan
Neuropsychologic deficits in temporal lobe epilepsy
SM Oxbury
Neuropsychologic deficits in frontal lobe epilepsy
RG
Morris and CM Cowey
Ontogenetic specialization of hemispheric function
F Vargha-Khadem, E Isaacs, K Watkins, and M Mishkin
(to be confirmed)
Quality of life issues in intractable focal epilepsy
A Jacoby and GA Baker
Psychiatric comorbidity
MV
Lambert and AS David
Drug treatment: adults
JM Oxbury (to be confirmed)
Drug treatment: children
JT Gilman
Development
of new anti-epileptic drugs
GDS Wright
Psychological methods
LH Goldstein
Dietary measures
DR Nordli Jr and DC
De Vivo
Adverse events during long-term medical treatment of adults
P Crawford and JM Oxbury (to be confirmed)
Outcome
after long-term medical treatment: children
M Duchowny
Syndromes amenable to surgery
JM Oxbury
Surgical options
CE
Polkey
Radiologic evaluation of hippocampal sclerosis
F Cendes
Invasive Neurophysiological evaluation
RDC Elwes
Preoperative
neuropsychological assesment
SM Oxbury
Carotid amobarbital testing and other amobarbital proceedures
S Baxendale
Functional
imaging of epilepsy
AC Nobre and A Rao
Presurgical psychosocial evaluation
GA Baker and A Jacoby
Rational preoperative
investigation program and patient selection
CE Polkey, CD Binnie, JM Oxbury and M Duchowny
51. Temporal lobe resections
CE
Polkey
Extratemporal cortical excisions for epilepsy
H Silfvenius
Hemispherectomy
GF Tuite, CE Polkey, and W Harkness
Functional
surgery for epilepsy
CE Polkey (to be confirmed)
Brain stimulation for epilepsy
CE Polkey
56. Anaesthesia for epilepsy
surgery
PB Hewitt
57. Seizure reduction
JM Oxbury and CE Polkey
Physical complications of epilepsy surgery
CE
Polkey
Neuropsychologic function following frontal excisions
RG Morris and EC Miotto
Cognitive and memory changes: temporal
lobe excisions
SM Oxbury
Cognitive and memory changes hemispherectomy
ES Knight and SM Oxbury
Cognitive and memory
changes after posterior hemisphere excisions
SM Oxbury and S Henley
Psychiatric sequelae of epilepsy surgery
CJ McEvedy
and PBC Fenwick
Quality of life changes and rehabilitation
P Dean (to be confirmed)
The costs of persistent intractable
focal epilepsy
Sperling (to be confirmed)
The health economics of epilepsy surgery
H Silfvenius
Index
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Hardbound, 916 pages, publication date: JUN-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2428-3
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2428-7
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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