The intraoperative SEEG and 18FDG-PET tailored temporal lobe resection (iSP-TR) for the tissue-spearing surgical treatment of drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: how we do it
摘要
Background
For drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), surgery is recommended. There is no evidence of a seizure outcome advantage of temporal lobectomy over other strategies despite the high risks of this surgical procedure.
MethodsWe describe a Temporal Resection guided by intraoperative stereo-electroencephalography (iSEEG) and the 18FluoroDeoxyGlucose PET (18FDG PET) (iSP-TR) to treat lesional MTLE. We avoided functional cortical areas using navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (nTMS).
ConclusioniSP-TR allows for a spare brain parenchyma compared to temporal lobectomy without compromising seizure outcomes.