EPILEPSY: Diagnosis and Classification

Through cultivating an understanding of temporal lobe epilepsy and its most common form, mesial temporal epilepsy, and the relationship of epilepsy to hippocampal sclerosis, Director of Neuromagnetic Resonance Imaging at the  Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Tammie Benzinger, M.D., Ph.D., sets out to assist the practicing clinician to understand and classify the various types and causes for seizure disorders, learn the crucial role of imaging in the diagnosis of epilepsy, and recognize the importance of imaging findings in determining treatment.
 


The “Radiology Guidance for Referring Physicians” series of ebooks offers practicing clinicians - both primary care doctors and specialists - a quick and easy reference to over 100 distinct conditions, and how state-of-the-art imaging should be applied within the context of diagnosis, preoperative staging and therapy monitoring.

Authored by board certified radiologists who also teach at the finest medical schools in the U.S. and abroad, each ebook is presented in a clear and concise manner meant to be read in less than an hour, yet contains all the necessary information with which to base a decision on when to order advanced imaging studies for the particular disease process under review.

The “Radiology Guidance for Referring Physicians” series offers doctors the opportunity to access crucial information quickly and economically as cases present in daily practice, without the need to invest in a large, all-encompassing (and expensive) tome.