Operative Techniques in Epilepsy
This book describes the specific surgical techniques currently employed in patients with intractable epilepsy; it also covers the relevant technical aspects of general neurosurgery. All of the approaches associated with the various foci of epilepsy within
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Operative Techniques in Epilepsy
John P. Girvin
Operative Techniques in Epilepsy
John P. Girvin Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences Western University London, ON Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-10920-6 ISBN 978-3-319-10921-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10921-3 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
The impetus leading to the authorship of this book was derived from the many young resident and fellow neurosurgical trainees who lamented the fact that there were limited comprehensive resources that covered purely technical aspects of neurosurgery, especially those of epilepsy surgery. This is not to say that there are not good articles and books in the literature dealing with epilepsy surgery, but rather that there is a paucity of literature primarily devoted to considerations of functional cortical localization and the surgery of the majority of the epilepsies. The usual complaint that I hear from the trainees is that most articles dealing with epilepsy surgery are in large part confined primarily to the results of the surgery, rather than any significant details of the techniques and
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