[Changes in cerebral perfusion induced by etomidate in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy].

Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the major neurological disorders, affecting roughly 0.5-2% of the world's population and approximately 20-25% of patients are resistant to medication.

Aim: To analyze the response of cerebral perfusion (assessed by SPECT) and bioelectrical activity (measured in scalp and mesial temporal region) to etomidate.

[Impact of experience on improving the surgical outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy].

Introduction: Recently, we have published the results of a first surgical series of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We describe a posterior series of patients intervened of TLE, we compare the functional results with the previous series and we finally analyze the causes of changes.

Patients And Methods: We studied the first 22 consecutive patients surgically intervened of TLE with a minimum post-surgery follow-up of 2 years.

[Reconstruction of thoracolumbar spine instability: clinical and neuroradiological results of a surgical challenge].

Introduction: Surgical treatment for thoracolumbar union instability represents a challenge, due to the difficult access to this area of the spine, and to the extreme variability of morphological and biomechanical lesions observed.

Aim: To describe the indications and clinical and neuroradiological results obtained with procedures of anterior or combined spinal fusion-instrumentation used for the treatment of instable thoracolumbar lesions.

Patients And Methods: 17 patients with thoracolumbar instability were treated surgically, being followed-up at least for one year.