RT Book, Section
A1 Leiphart, James
A1 Fried, Itzhak
A2 Sirven, Joseph I.
A2 Stern, John M.
SR Print(0)
ID 1103050680
T1 Use and Placement of Depth Electrodes
T2 Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071597425
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1103050680
RD 2024/04/20
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.