Overview
- Discusses all modern imaging and electrophysiological methodologies for the preoperative evaluation of patients with intrinsic brain tumors and/or medically intractable epilepsy
- Explains how to incorporate all preoperatively acquired information into the surgical planning
- Describes all available adjuvant treatment modalities for patients harboring intrinsic brain tumors
Buy print copy
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide for the safe and efficient management of patients with intrinsic brain tumors and medically intractable epilepsy. It presents in an easily understandable way the preoperative evaluation of these patients, starting from the clinical interpretation of conventional anatomical MR imaging and analyses the clinical significance of newer MR based imaging techniques such as diffusion and perfusion imaging.
It demonstrates with clarity the role of MR spectroscopy and fractional anisotropy and diffusion tensor imaging in the preoperative assessment of these patients and how this data can be incorporated into the surgical planning.
This book is aimed at neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neurologists, and epileptologists, and may also be of interest to neuropsychologists, neurophysiologists, radiation oncologists, and medical physicists.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (26 chapters)
Reviews
“I recommend this book enthusiastically to residents, fellows, and faculty from different disciplines, including neuropsychology, radiology, neurology, and neurosurgery, who will all benefit (as I have) from reading this textbook cover-to-cover.” (Jeffrey S. Raskin, Operative Neurosurgery, Vol. 18 (2), February, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Konstantinos Fountas
University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Eftychia Z. Kapsalaki
University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Epilepsy Surgery and Intrinsic Brain Tumor Surgery
Book Subtitle: A Practical Atlas
Editors: Konstantinos Fountas, Eftychia Z. Kapsalaki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95918-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95917-7Published: 18 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07115-8Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95918-4Published: 03 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 301
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 108 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosurgery, Neuroradiology, Neurology, Neuropsychology, Surgical Oncology, Medical and Radiation Physics