| Literature DB >> 29219756 |
Holger Joswig1, John P Girvin1, Warren T Blume2, Jorge G Burneo2, David A Steven1.
Abstract
With the patient awake during surgery, the authors used a simple technique to determine which part of a patient's brain was essential for vision. This technique allows the surgeon to remove as much as the seizure-producing brain as possible by avoiding the areas that are critical for vision.Entities:
Keywords: EEG = electroencephalography; OE = occipital epilepsy; SOZ = seizure onset zone; awake surgery; electrocortical stimulation; epilepsy surgery; mapping; occipital epilepsy; perimetry; surgical technique; visual cortex
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Year: 2018 PMID： 29219756 DOI： 10.3171/2017.6.JNS17846
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurosurg ISSN： 0022-3085 Impact factor: 5.115