The Treatment of Epilepsy

By Simon D. Shorvon, Emilio Perucca, David Fish, W E Dodson

Description:

The Treatment of Epilepsy, fourth edition, is a comprehensive reference and clinical guide to the pharmacological, medical and surgical options available in the treatment of epilepsy.

The text is compiled by a group of internationally renowned editors and contributors and is now in full color and extensively illustrated

The first two sections cover the background to, and principles of, treatment in different clinical situations

Section three comprises a series of systematic reviews of contemporary drug therapy, devoting one chapter to each anti-epileptic drug and covering all clinically-relevant aspects

Section four focuses on the surgical options, devoting individual chapters to each of the modalities of presurgical assessment and to each surgical operation or approach

This 4th edition is extensively revised incorporating the many recent developments in therapy, and comprises 81 chapters from world experts from 18 countries

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