1. Radiosurgery for Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Resulting from Mesial Temporal Sclerosis
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Thomas C. Witt, Thomas Gianaris, and Nicholas M. Barbaro
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Radiosurgery ,Temporal lobe ,03 medical and health sciences ,Epilepsy ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,Sclerosis ,business.industry ,Open surgery ,Treatment options ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Structural interventions ,Temporal Lobe ,Surgery ,Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Epilepsy syndromes ,Temporal sclerosis ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Medial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) is perhaps the most well-defined epilepsy syndrome that is responsive to structural interventions such as surgery. Several minimally invasive techniques have arisen that provide additional options for the treatment of MTS while potentially avoiding many of open surgery's associated risks. By evading these risks, they also open up treatment options to patients who otherwise are poor surgical candidates. Radiosurgery is one of the most intensively studied of these alternatives and has found a growing role in the treatment of medial temporal lobe epilepsy.
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- 2016
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