Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery - Preoperative Assessment and Surgical Treatment (Hardcover)

This comprehensive textbook covers a multitude of issues in pediatric epilepsy surgery, from basic information about diagnosis and management of epilepsy in childhood to most sophisticated relevant surgical techniques and their details. The frequency of epilepsy in childhood is very high and children of all ages can suffer from medically intractable seizure disorder secondary to a number of syndromes and diseases. Although the majority of children can be treated with drugs, at least more than 30% of them are medically intractable patients and surgical interventions have been increasingly used for patients resistant to medical treatment. During the past decade, epilepsy surgery has rapidly become a mainstay treatment option instead of a last resort, even for infants and young children. A variety of surgical procedures for epilepsy in children have been performed in all major pediatric neurosurgery centers today. As a result, considerable work has been dedicated to patient selection criteria, indications, surgical techniques, results and outcome in pediatric epilepsy surgery. Therefore significant data and experience accumulated within the last decade in this field. This book will cover all aspects of pediatric epilepsy surgery, including medical treatment and medical intractability, pre-operative assessment and patient selection for surgical intervention, all relevant surgical techniques, postoperative outcome, and potential future advances and promising techniques in this field. All chapters will end with brief overview of the topics by the editors. This book will be a collaborative effort among international experts in pediatric epilepsy and pediatric epilepsy surgery to provide most up to date information on the subjects. It will be a valued resource in neurosurgeon, neurologist and pediatrician offices and institutional libraries throughout the US and possibly the world.

General

Imprint:	Thieme Medical Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Oguz Cataltepe • George I. Jallo
Dimensions:	216 x 279 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-60406-254-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Surgery > Neurosurgery Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Paediatric medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	1-60406-254-1
Barcode:	9781604062540

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