Ablative brain surgery: an overview

A Franzini, S Moosa, D Servello, I Small… - International Journal …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Ablative therapies have been used for the treatment of neurological disorders
for many years. They have been used both for creating therapeutic lesions within …

The genetic absence epilepsy rat from Strasbourg as a model to decipher the neuronal and network mechanisms of generalized idiopathic epilepsies

A Depaulis, O David, S Charpier - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2016 - Elsevier
First characterized in 1982, the genetic absence epilepsy rat from Strasbourg (GAERS) has
emerged as an animal model highly reminiscent of a specific form of idiopathic generalized …

Safety and efficacy of Gamma Knife radiosurgery in hypothalamic hamartomas with severe epilepsies: A prospective trial in 48 patients and review of the literature

J Regis, M Lagmari, R Carron, M Hayashi… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Epilepsies associated with hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) are frequently drug resistant
with severe psychiatric and cognitive comorbidities. We performed a prospective trial to …

Surgical treatment of hypothalamic hamartomas

P Bourdillon, S Ferrand-Sorbet, C Apra, M Chipaux… - Neurosurgical …, 2021 - Springer
Hypothalamic hamartomas are aberrant masses, composed of abnormally distributed
neurons and glia. Along endocrine and cognitive symptoms, they may cause epileptic …

Minimally invasive techniques for epilepsy surgery: stereotactic radiosurgery and other technologies: a review

M Quigg, C Harden - Journal of neurosurgery, 2014 - thejns.org
Minimally invasive surgical techniques for the treatment of medically intractable epilepsy,
which have been developed by neurosurgeons and epileptologists almost simultaneously …

Laser interstitial thermal therapy: a first line treatment for seizures due to hypothalamic hamartoma?

VX Du, SV Gandhi, HL Rekate, AD Mehta - Epilepsia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Successful treatment of hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) can result in the resolution of its
sequelae including epilepsy and rage attacks. Risks and morbidity of open surgical …

Subcentimeter epilepsy surgery targets by resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging can improve outcomes in hypothalamic hamartoma

VL Boerwinkle, ST Foldes, SJ Torrisi, H Temkit… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The purpose of this study is to investigate the outcomes of epilepsy surgery
targeting the subcentimeter‐sized resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs …

Endoscopic resection of hypothalamic hamartomas for refractory symptomatic epilepsy

YT Ng, HL Rekate, EC Prenger, NC Wang, SS Chung… - Neurology, 2008 - AAN Enterprises
Background: Hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs), rare developmental abnormalities of the
inferior hypothalamus, often cause refractory, symptomatic, mixed epilepsy, including …

Hypothalamic hamartoma: Neuropathology and epileptogenesis

JF Kerrigan, A Parsons, C Tsang, K Simeone… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hypothalamic hamartomas (HH s) are congenital malformations of the ventral hypothalamus
resulting in treatment‐resistant epilepsy and are intrinsically epileptogenic for the gelastic …

Gamma knife surgery for epilepsy related to hypothalamic hamartomas

J Régis, D Scavarda, M Tamura, N Villeneuve… - Seminars in pediatric …, 2007 - Elsevier
Numerous neurosurgical approaches are available for children presenting with
hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) associated with severe epilepsy. A concern regarding the …