Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 8 : Proceedings of the 8th Meeting of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Budapest 1988

The last ten years has witnessed a resurgence of interest in stereotactic surgery although this has been mainly in the field of the comparatively simple stereotactic biopsy of intracranial tumours. There is also evidence of a returning interest in functional neurosurgery other than pain which has always sustained high levels of endeavour. The present work comprises selected papers from a much larger group of interesting and important communications to the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. They represent modern views on a wide variety of stereotactic surgical topics from internationally acclaimed experts in this field. The neurosurgeon who has little or no acquaintance with this fruitful sub-specialty will be surprised to find very broad applications of the technique which is gradually replacing many con­ ventional neurosurgical procedures. This is particularly evident in the papers on tumours but there is also a section on the treatment of vascular disease which marks an extension of neurosurgical practice. The Society has always regarded technical advances as important and some of the most recent devel­ opments appear in this book. Finally, an exciting new development of neural transplantation marks the beginning of what may be an important part of neurological surgery in the future. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy: Opportunities for Research Into Basic Mechanisms of Human Brain Function....Pages 3-8 Stereotactic Investigations in Frontal Lobe Epilepsies....Pages 9-12 Propagation of Focal Epilepsies and the Timing and Targeting of Surgical Interventions. Illustrative Case Reports....Pages 13-16 Epilepsy Course in Cerebral Gangliogliomas: a Study of 16 Cases....Pages 17-20 Experience with Orbital Electrodes in the Patients Operated on for Epilepsy—Results of Temporofrontal Resections....Pages 21-24 Design of an Intracranial Electrode for Monitoring....Pages 25-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Some Basic Features of the Pathological and Normal Motor System Studied by Chronic Deep Electrodes....Pages 32-36 Behavioural Responses to Cerebellar Stimulation in Cerebral Palsy....Pages 37-38 Use of Intrathecal Baclofen Administered by Programmable Infusion Pumps in Resistent Spasticity....Pages 39-45 Critical Approach to Intrastriatal Medullary Adrenal Implants via Open Surgery in Parkinsonism. Case Report....Pages 46-47 Transplantation in Parkinson’s Disease: Stereotactic Implantation of Adrenal Medulla and Foetal Mesencephalon....Pages 48-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Clinical Use of Nociceptive Flexion Reflex Recording in the Evaluation of Functional Neurosurgical Procedures....Pages 53-57 Intra-operative Spinal Cord Evoked Potentials During Cervical and Lumbo-sacral Microsurgical DREZ-tomy (MDT) for Chronic Pain and Spasticity (Preliminary Data)....Pages 58-61 Craniofacial Postherpetic Neuralgia Managed by Stereotactic Spinal Trigeminal Nucleotomy....Pages 62-64 Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) in the Treatment of Postherpetic Pain....Pages 65-66 CT-guided Percutaneous Cordotomy....Pages 67-68 Myelotomies for Chronic Pain....Pages 69-72 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 Differential Diagnosis Between Tumoural and Non-Tumoural Intracranial Lesions in Children: a Stereotactic Approach....Pages 75-78 Natural History of Neuroepithelial Tumours: Contribution of Stereotactic Biopsy....Pages 79-81 Stereotaxy of Third Ventricular Masses....Pages 82-85 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 Brain Stem Expanding Lesions: Stereotactic Diagnosis and Therapeutical Approach....Pages 86-89 Tumour Recurrence vs Radionecrosis: an Indication for Multitrajectory Serial Stereotactic Biopsies....Pages 90-93 Comments on Brachycurie Therapy of Cerebral Tumours....Pages 94-96 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Is Vasodilatation Following Dorsal Column Stimulation Mediated by Antidromic Activation of Small Diameter Afferents?....Pages 99-101 Cerebral and Carotid Haemodynamic Changes Following Cervical Spinal Cord Stimulation. An Experimental Study....Pages 102-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 CT-Guided “Real Time” Stereotaxy....Pages 107-108 Transposition of Image-defined Trajectories into Arc-quadrant Centered Stereotactic Systems....Pages 109-111 The Stereotactic Operating Microscope: Accuracy Refinement and Clinical Experience....Pages 112-114 Back Matter....Pages 115-115