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CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL
SURGEONS ESSENTIAL PAPERS
IN NEUROSURGERY
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CONGRESS OF
NEUROLOGICAL
SURGEONS ESSENTIAL
PAPERS IN NEUROSURGERY
Najib E. El Tecle, MD
EDITED BY
ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY
ST. LOUIS, MO, USA
Tarek Y. El Ahmadieh, MD
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN
DALLAS, TX, USA
Salah G. Aoun, MD
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN
DALLAS, TX, USA
Bernard R. Bendok, MD
MAYO CLINIC
PHOENIX, AZ, USA
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Preface xi 1.3 Epilepsy 13
Contributors xiii Handforth A, DeGiorgio CM, Schachter
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1 FUNCTIONAL 1 therapy for partial- onset seizures: a
randomized active- control trial.
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and Ali Rezai, MD
Editorialists: Jeffrey P. Mullin, MD, MBA,
Assistant Section Editor: Jorge F. Urquiaga, MD
Saksith Smithason, MD, Jorge Gonzalez
1.1 Pain 1 Martinez, MD, PhD, and Joseph
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Milind Deogaonkar, MD Editorialists: Chengyuan Wu, MD, MSBmE
Schultz DM, Webster L, Kosek P, Dar U, and Kareem A. Zaghloul, MD, PhD
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the Canadian Neurosurgical Society;
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1.5 Neuropsychiatric Disorder 23
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1.2 Movement Disorders 10
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Krack P, et al.; German Parkinson James P. Caruso, MD, and Bradley Lega, MD
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