ArticleFrontiers in neurology2021
Magnetic Resonance-Guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (MR-gLiTT) in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery: State of the Art and Presentation of Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital (Genoa, Italy) Series.
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- Comparison of magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy corpus callosum ablation to open microsurgical corpus callosotomy: A single-center retrospective cohort study.Epilepsia open · 2024Article
- The Evolving Landscape of Therapeutics for Epilepsy in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Intraoperative MRI Assessment of the Tissue Damage during Laser Ablation of Hypothalamic Hamartoma.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) for pediatric patients affected by intracranial tumors.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Advances in hypothalamic hamartoma research over the past 30 years (1992-2021): a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Corpus Callosotomy Is a Safe and Effective Procedure for Medically Resistant Epilepsy.Advances and technical standards in neurosurgery · 2023Article
- Knowledge Atlas of Insular Epilepsy: A Bibliometric Analysis.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2022Article
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Abstract
Magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MR-gLiTT) is a novel minimally invasive treatment approach for drug-resistant focal epilepsy and brain tumors. Using thermal ablation induced by a laser diode implanted intracranially in a stereotactic manner, the technique is highly effective and safe, reducing the risk associated with more traditional open surgical approaches that could lead to increased neurological morbidity. Indications for MR-gLiTT in pediatric epilepsy surgery include hypothalamic hamartoma, tuberous sclerosis complex, cavernoma-related epilepsy, SEEG-guided seizure onset zone ablation, corpus callosotomy, periventricular nodular heterotopia, mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, and insular epilepsy. We review the available literature on the topic and present our series of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy treated by MR-gLiTT. Our experience, represented by six cases of hypothalamic hamartomas, one case of tuberous sclerosis, and one case of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor, helps to confirm that MR-gLiTT is a highly safe and effective procedure for several epilepsy conditions in children.
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