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Based on electrophysiological and anatomical evidence stereotactic interruption of the amygdalo—mediothalamic pathway, has been added to the different conventional targets commonly used in the stereotactic treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. This pathway has a most important rôle in the breakthrough of limbic seizures to other structures of the brain. In 9 cases the interruption has been performed at the oro-ventral pole of Nc. medialis (dorsomedialis) thalami and in one case at the border of prothalamus and hypothalamus latero-occipital to the columna fornicis in the intercommissural plane. This later intervention can be combined with fornico- and anterior commissurotomy in an one stage operation, using an insulated stylet or string electrode.
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Ganglberger, J.A. (1984). Additional New Approach in Treatment of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. In: Gybels, J., Hitchcock, E.R., Ostertag, C., Rossi, G.F., Siegfried, J., Szikla, G. (eds) Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 6. Acta Neurochirurgica, vol 33. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8726-5_23
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