This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide for the safe
and efficient management of patients with intrinsic brain tumors and
medically intractable epilepsy. It presents in an easily understandable
way the preoperative evaluation of these patients, starting from the
clinical interpretation of conventional anatomical MR imaging and
analyses the clinical significance of newer MR based imaging techniques
such as diffusion and perfusion imaging.
It demonstrates with
clarity the role of MR spectroscopy and fractional anisotropy and
diffusion tensor imaging in the preoperative assessment of these
patients and how this data can be incorporated into the surgical
planning.
This book is aimed at neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists,
neurologists, and epileptologists, and may also be of interest to
neuropsychologists, neurophysiologists, radiation oncologists, and
medical physicists.
