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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

EPILEPSY SURGERY: SPECIFIC PROCEDURES & HIGHLIGHTS : TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY



✔️ Head turned 90* and held with pins

✔️ Most commonly a "question mark" temporal incision

✔️ a flap based on temporalis muscle elevated

✔️ a subtemporal craniectomy allows visualisation of entire anterior temporal lobe

✔️ anterior 6-6.5 cms of temporal lobe exposed

✔️ surface or depth electrocorticography employed

✔️ map the lesion

✔️ amygdala, hippocampus/ anterior temporal lobe removed 

✔️ Temporal lobectomy involves resection of both lateral and medial (uncus, hippocampal formation etc) temporal structures, mostly under an operating microscope

✔️ Complications: Injury to brainstem, 3rd and 4th cranial nerves , Middle or Posterior Cerebral arteries

✔️ closure of dura, bone flap and scalp concludes the surgery

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