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    Radiosurgery for epilepsy treatment
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    Current Issue: 2022, Volume 32, Issue 3
    VOLUME: 14 ISSUE: 3
    P: 198-206
    December 2008

    Radiosurgery for epilepsy treatment

    Arch Epilepsy 2008;14(3):198-206
    Selçuk Peker 1
    Fatih Bayraklı 2
    1. Acıbadem Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Nöroşirurji Anabilim Dalı
    2. Acıbadem Maslak Hastanesi, Nöroşirurji Departmanı
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    Accepted Date: 13.02.2009
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    ABSTRACT

    Radiosurgery is the precise application of focused radiation to a targeted volume area within the brain, which has been identified on MRI. With recent advances, radiosurgical treatment is now being evaluated as an alternative treatment to öpen resective surgery for intractable epilepsy. Recent studies suggest that radiosurgery may be an effective and safe treatment for medically intractable epilepsy associated with mesial temporal sclerosis, cavernous malformations, arterivenous malformations, hypothalamic hamartomas and can help reducing the frequency of epilepsy in certain types of diseases.

    Keywords: Epilepsy, radiosurgery, gamma knife, LINAC

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