Advances In Epilepsy Surgery And Radiosurgery (acta Neurochirurgica Supplement)

Washington D. C. , and at the Columbia University New York. In 1967 and 1968 he worked as a gen­ eral surgeon at the 1st Surgical Department of the Vienna Medical School with Professor Fuchsig. At the Max-Planck Institute in Munich he worked in the years 1968 to 1969 as a neuropathologist. In the year 1969 till 1972 back at the Department of Neurosurgery in Vienna he served as a general neurosurgeon and one of his main goals was pediatric neurosurgery. In Au­ gust 1972 he moved to Kiel to work with Professor Jensen at the Neurosurgical University Hospital. He had to graduate one more time in Germany and he did this with "Ultrasound Tomography in Neurosurgery". Together with the Department of Pediatrics he started to build the Pediatric Neurosurgical Department. At this time he started his research on pineal, midbrain and brainstem surgery. In September 1976 he started at the Ostsee Clinic Damp in Schleswig-Holstein to build a Neurosurgical Department that opened its gates on 1977 and he became the first chairman. On On September 30th, 2002 Professor Gerhard Pendl, April 1, 1978 he went back to Vienna as the Vice M. D. retires from his chairmanship at the Department Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital in Graz. University Hospital in Vienna under Professor Koos Shortly after his birth on July 10, 1934 in Linz and in 1980 he got his Ph. D. Front Matter....Pages I-VII Future Aspects of Epilepsy Research....Pages 1-16 Future Aspects of the Presurgical Evaluation in Epilepsy....Pages 17-26 Surgical Treatment of Epilepsies....Pages 27-35 Gamma Knife Surgery, a Neuromodulation Therapy in Epilepsy Surgery!....Pages 37-47 Gamma-Knife Radiosurgery of Mesiotemporal Tumour Epilepsy Observations and Long Term Results....Pages 49-55 Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Hypothalamic Hamartomas....Pages 57-63 Fractionated Stereotactically Guided Radiotherapy of Pharmacoresistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy....Pages 65-70 Preservation of Cranial Nerve Function Following Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Benign Skull Base Meningiomas: Experience in 121 Patients with Follow-up of 5 to 9.8 Years....Pages 71-76 Cranial Nerve Preservation after Radiosurgery of Vestibular Schwannomas....Pages 77-83 Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of Brainstem Gliomas....Pages 85-90 The Role of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in the Management of Glomus Jugulare Tumours....Pages 91-97 Radiation and Regeneration: Behavioral Improvement and GDNF Expression after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in the 6-OHDA Rodent Model of Hemi-Parkinsonism....Pages 99-105 Back Matter....Pages 107-120 Treatment in epilepsy has changed in the last couple of years due to modern drugs and surgery. This collection presents the state-of-the-art in epilepsy surgery and future aspects in the treatment. The options of surgery and radiosurgery are shown together with their results. The topics are leading from Gamma Knife surgery to the options and results of common radiosurgical diagnosis for treatment with the Leksell Gamma Knife and the possibilities and results of the use of the latter