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Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Drug-Refractory Epilepsy

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Stereotactic radiosurgery provides a safe nonresective option to treat medically refractory epilepsy. The radiosurgical ablation of an epileptic focus, especially when performed through frameless image-guided radiosurgery, is a thoroughly noninvasive treatment devoid of the risks of open surgical procedures. Radiosurgery can be offered to patients harboring neocortical, hippocampal, or diencephalic seizure foci not requiring invasive mapping. Disconnective procedures such as radiosurgical callosotomy can be performed as well. This chapter will review the state of the art of radiosurgery for epilepsy, with special emphasis placed on robotic image-guided frameless delivery.

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Romanelli, P., Conti, A. (2019). Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Drug-Refractory Epilepsy. In: Fountas, K., Kapsalaki, E. (eds) Epilepsy Surgery and Intrinsic Brain Tumor Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95918-4_20

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