Principles Of Epilepsy Surgery: Presurgical Evaluation, Operative Techniques, and Long-Term Outcomes for Refractory Seizure Disorders

By Viktor S. Hadley

When drug resistant seizures demand more than another medication trial, you need a clear surgical framework that connects evaluation, anatomy, technique, and outcomes.
Principles of Epilepsy Surgery is a clinically oriented medical reference for neurosurgery residents, neurology trainees, epileptologists, neurophysiologists, and surgical teams managing complex focal seizure disorders. Instead of treating imaging, EEG, operative anatomy, and outcomes as separate subjects, this textbook shows you how each data point contributes to safe surgical reasoning. You are guided through presurgical workup, patient selection, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, functional mapping, neuropsychological risk, operative planning, resective and disconnective procedures, LITT, neuromodulation, complications, postoperative care, pediatric considerations, and future directions.
Inside this reference, you will learn to:
- Clarify surgical candidacy by connecting drug resistance, seizure semiology, MRI findings, EEG data, and multidisciplinary referral pathways.
- Interpret presurgical imaging with stronger awareness of hippocampal sclerosis, focal cortical dysplasia, tumors, vascular lesions, PET, SPECT, and tractography.
- Compare invasive monitoring options, including SEEG, subdural grids, functional cortical mapping, and high frequency oscillation analysis.
- Plan operative approaches with attention to temporal, extratemporal, hemispheric, callosal, ablative, and neuromodulatory strategies.
- Communicate risks, expectations, complications, medication management, and long term follow up with greater clinical precision.
- Apply pediatric and special population principles where anatomy, development, neuroplasticity, and family centered outcomes shape decision-making.
- Strengthen your clinical vocabulary with integrated discussions of ictogenesis, epileptogenic networks, surgical contraindications, outcome classification, and quality assurance.
With learning objectives, clinical tables, visual explanations, case-based elements, glossary support, and board-style review structure, the text is built for both sequential study and point-of-care review. Designed for serious clinical study, this textbook brings together neuroscience, neuroimaging, invasive monitoring, operative anatomy, counseling, and outcome measurement in one practical framework. Add it to your professional library and use it to reinforce your approach to complex epilepsy surgery decision-making, from first referral through long term postoperative care.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H839671X
• ISBN13: 9798186239376
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"