Awake perimetry testing for occipital epilepsy surgery.
case_series · Level IV
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- Also identified by DOI 10.3171/2017.6.JNS17846.
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Abstract
With the patient awake during surgery, the authors used a simple technique to determine which part of a patient's brain was essential for vision. This technique allows the surgeon to remove as much as the seizure-producing brain as possible by avoiding the areas that are critical for vision.
Medical subject headings
- Brain
- Brain Mapping
- Epilepsy