Safety of Concomitant Cortical and Thalamic Stereoencephalography Explorations in Patients With Drug-Resistant Epilepsies.
Jasmine L HectArka N MallelaMichael PupiAustin AnthonyDavid FoggJonathan HoAnna L SlingerlandNaoki IkegayaHussam Abou-Al-ShaarThandar AungJorge Gonzalez-MartinezPublished in: Neurosurgery (2024)
sEEG of the thalamus is a safe and valuable tool that can be used to interrogate the efficacy of thalamic neuromodulation for drug-resistant epilepsy. While patients with thalamic sEEG did have higher incidence of hemorrhage at any monitoring site, this finding was apparently not related to the method of perisylvian implantation and did not involve any trajectories targeting the thalamus.