The Treatment of Epilepsy
4th Edition, Simon Shorvon, Emilio Perucca, Jerome Engel, 1118937007, 0470752467, 978-1118937006, 978-0470752463, 978-1405128261, 9781118937006, 9780470752463, 9781405128261, B015SUG104
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