BookJohn M. Stern, Noriko Salamon.
Summary: This clinically-oriented collection of brain imaging results provides a unique and helpful approach to the epilepsy evaluation. The atlas is divided into sections according to general clinical categories with each category including a collection of clinical examples that span the category. Each example includes images across the relevant imaging modalities that relate to one patient, whose history accompanies the images. This case-based organization with clinical history and multiple images offers a complete visual understanding of the imaging findings and the corresponding relationship of each finding to the clinical presentation, treatment, and outcome. Images for the book are from the UCLA Seizure Disorder Center, which is a referral center that serves a large outpatient epilepsy patient population and performs approximately 500 inpatient epilepsy evaluations annually. Comprehensive and richly illustrated, this book will serve as a convenient resource in neurologic and radiologic practice, and useful for board exam review.
Contents:
Hippocampal Sclerosis
Focal cortical dysplasias
Heterotopias
Polymicrogyria
Lissencephaly
Schizencephaly
Hemimegenceaphly
Porencephaly
Trauma
Non-penetrating trauma
Penetrating trauma
Herpes encephalitis
Neurocysticercosis
Limbic encephalitis
Hashimotos encephalitis
Rasmussen encephalitis
Cavernous malformation
Arteriovenous malformation
Ischemic infarction
Sturge-Weber syndrome
Astrocytoma
DNET
Ganglioglioma
Oligodendroglioma
Normal hippocampal atrophy
Atypical gyral anatomy
Developmental venous anomaly
Splenium signal changes
Cerebellar atrophy
Subarachnoid cysts
Intra-parenchymal cysts
Responsive neurostimulation
Deep brain stimulation
Anterior temporal lobe resections
Focal cortical resection
Hemispherectomy
Corpus callosotomy
Multiple sub-pial transsection
Stereotactic thermo-ablation
Gamma radiation.