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WORLD NEUROSURGERY
Volume 94, Issue -, Pages 73-79Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.06.095
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Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Radiofrequency; Stereotactic surgery
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BACKGROUND: Deep brain electrodes have been used for the past 10 years to produce bipolar stereo-electroencephalographyLguided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SEEG RF-TC). However, this technique is based on empiric knowledge. The aim of this study is 3-fold: 1) provide in vivo animal data concerning the effect of bipolar RF-TC on brain and its safety; 2) assess the parameters of this procedure (current delivery and dipole selection) that produce the most efficient lesion; and 3) provide technical guidelines. METHODS: First we achieved in vivo RF-TC on rabbit brains with several conditions (power delivered and lesioning duration) and analyzed their influence on the lesion produced. Only a difference in terms of volume was found, and type of histologic lesions was similar whatever the settings were. We then performed multiple RF-TC in vitro on egg albumen, first with several parameters of radiofrequency and then with different dipole spatial selections. The end point was the size of the radiofrequency thermolesion produced. RESULTS: Using unfixed parameters of radiofrequency current delivery and increasing it until the power delivered by the generator collapsed produced significantly larger lesions (P =0.008) than other conditions. Concerning the dipole selection, the use of contiguous contacts on electrodes led to lesions with a higher volume (P=7.7x10(-13)) than those produced with noncontiguous ones. CONCLUSION: Besides the target selection in SEEG RF-TC, which is summarized on the basis of a literature review, we report the optimal parameters: Radiofrequency current must be increased until the power delivered collapses, and dipoles should be constituted by contiguous electrode contacts.
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