Neurosurgery Junio 2014

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Stereotactic laser amygdalohippocampotomy

The report of Willie, Jon T et al., demonstrates the technical feasibility and encouraging early results of stereotactic laser amygdalohippocampotomy (SLAH), a novel approach to eliminating seizures while minimizing collateral injury in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). Efficacy appears to approach that of open resection, especially in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS). Such minimally invasive techniques may be more desirable to patients and result in increased use of epilepsy surgery among the large number of medically intractable epilepsy patients. A larger, longer term multicenter study of seizure and cognitive outcomes after SLAH is currently under way 1).
1) Willie JT, Laxpati NG, Drane DL, Gowda A, Appin C, Hao C, Brat DJ, Helmers SL, Saindane A, Nour SG, Gross RE. Real-time magnetic resonance-guided stereotactic laser amygdalohippocampotomy for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Neurosurgery. 2014 Jun;74(6):569-85. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000343. PubMed PMID: 24618797.
Banu MA, Rathman A, Patel KS, Souweidane MM, Anand VK, Greenfield JP, Schwartz TH. Corridor-based endonasal endoscopic surgery forpediatric skull base pathology with detailed radioanatomic measurements. Neurosurgery. 2014 Jun;10 Suppl 2:273-93. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000252. PubMed PMID: 24845548.

Boccard SG, Fitzgerald JJ, Pereira EA, Moir L, Van Hartevelt TJ, Kringelbach ML, Green AL, Aziz TZ. Targeting the affective component of chronic pain: a case series of deep brain stimulation of the anterior cingulate cortex. Neurosurgery. 2014 Jun;74(6):628-37. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000321. PubMed PMID: 24739362.

Caplan JM, Papadimitriou K, Yang W, Colby GP, Coon AL, Olivi A, Tamargo RJ, Huang J. The minipterional craniotomy for anterior circulation aneurysms: initial experience with 72 patients. Neurosurgery. 2014 Jun;10 Suppl 2:200-7. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000348. PubMed PMID: 24625424.

Pollock BE, Link MJ, Leavitt JA, Stafford SL. Dose-Volume Analysis of Radiation-Induced Optic Neuropathy After Single-Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Neurosurgery. 2014 Jun 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24902082.

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