TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Use and Placement of Depth Electrodes A1 - Leiphart, James A1 - Fried, Itzhak A2 - Sirven, Joseph I. A2 - Stern, John M. PY - 2011 T2 - Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring AB - Monitoring epilepsy patients with scalp-recorded electroencephalography (EEG) is the mainstay in the evaluation for potential curative surgery. Inpatient combined video-EEG monitoring (VEM) to record seizures can be used to help delineate the general region of the brain in which seizures start in a specific patient, as well as determine the type of seizure and exclude the diagnosis of nonepileptic seizures. In addition to the information gained by EEG recording, other noninvasive tests can be used to determine the ictal onset zone and underlying pathology. However, in a select group of patients, intracranial EEG monitoring is needed for determining eligibility for epilepsy surgery and for planning that surgery. The evaluations of these patients identify whether a resectable focus is present when noninvasive methods have not yielded the concordant findings needed to proceed to resective surgery. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1103050680 ER -