From resection to ablation: A review of resective surgical options for temporal lobe epilepsy and rationale for an ablation-based approach.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-2017
Abstract
Surgical intervention is of proven benefit in an appropriately selected subset of patients with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. In these patients, a surgical cure both provides the quality of life improvement that comes from seizure freedom as well as a survival benefit. However, patients who undergo open surgical intervention may have a worsening in neurobehavioral outcomes. Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) represents a minimally invasive surgical intervention that has shown promise in improving post-operative neurobehavioral outcomes. Further, the minimally invasive nature of this procedure holds the possibility to shift the significant under-penetration of surgical intervention that exists for eligible medically refractory patients. Herein, we review open surgical resection-based techniques and the clinical data to date for LITT.
Volume
65
Issue
Supplement
First Page
71
Last Page
71
ISSN
0028-3886
Published In/Presented At
Coyle, A., Riley, J., Wu, C., & Sharan, A. (2017). From resection to ablation: A review of resective surgical options for temporal lobe epilepsy and rationale for an ablation-based approach. Neurology India, 65(Supplement), S71–S77. https://doi.org/10.4103/0028-3886.201662
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
28281498
Department(s)
Department of Surgery
Document Type
Article