Background: The intracarotid amobarbital procedure (IAP) is widely used in the preoperative evaluation for epilepsy surgery to lateralize language dominance and memory functions. However, language mapping has most oft...
Temporal lobectomy is an effective therapy for medically refractory temporal l obe epilepsy (TLE), but may be complicated by amnestic syndromes. Therefore, pre surgical evaluation to assess the risk/benefit ratio for ...
Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of propofol as an alternative drug to amobarbital for the Wada test. Metho ds: The authors analyzed 67 right handed patients out of 123 patients who were candidates for neurosurgi...