Stereotactic MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for extratemporal lobe epilepsy.
Kunal GuptaBrian CabanissAmmar KhederSatyanarayana GedelaPaul KochKelsey C HewittAbdulrahman AlwakiChristopher RichSupriya RameshaRanliang HuDaniel L DraneRobert E GrossJon T WilliePublished in: Epilepsia (2020)
MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (or MRg-LITT) was well-tolerated and yielded good outcomes in a heterogeneous group of ETLE patients. Lesional epilepsy and favorable seizure-onset patterns on SEEG predicted higher likelihoods of success.
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