%0 Journal Article
%T Implanta£¿£¿o estereot¨¢xica de eletrodos profundos por ressonancia magn¨¦tica para cirurgia de epilepsia
%A MENESES
%A MURILO S.
%A FOLLADOR
%A FL¨¢VIA R.
%A ARRUDA
%A WALTER O.
%A SANTOS
%A HERALDO L.
%A YONESAWA
%A D¨¦BORA
%A HUNHEVICZ
%A SONIVAL C.
%J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
%D 1999
%I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
%R 10.1590/S0004-282X1999000400015
%X we present the case of a 40-year-old woman with refractory epilepsy since aged 18, who was submitted to video-eeg monitoring with intracerebral depth electrodes. the clinical history and examination, magnetic resonance image (mri), video-eeg and neuropsychological study did not allow the determination of the cerebral onset of epileptic seizures. depth electrodes inserted by mri-guided stereotaxis allowed the recording of the epileptic activity and thus showed quite accurately the area of the brain to be surgically resected. she underwent a right anterior temporal lobectomy with amygdalohippocampectomy. the immediate postoperative period was uneventful and she is without epileptic seizures after three months of follow-up. the average pre-operative free-seizure period was two weeks. to our knowledge, this is the first stereotactic surgery for insertion of depth intracerebral electrodes in epilepsy in brazil.
%K epilepsy surgery
%K depth electrodes
%K stereotaxis
%K magnetic resonance imaging.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X1999000400015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en