Hyperthermia delivered by scanned focused ultrasound was combined with external beam radiation to treat 15 patients with primary malignant tumors of the brain. A preliminary craniectomy was performed to avoid attenuation of the ultrasound beam by the skull, and multiple thermal sensors were employed to ascertain intratumoral temperatures. The target temperature was 42.5 degrees C at the tumor boundary. This was attained at more than one point during every complete treatment, while a mean temperature in excess of 42 degrees C was achieved within the scanned tumor volume during at least 1 treatment in 11 patients. Technical problems and toxicities are described.
We report a series of 8 patients with ictal déjà vu. Subdural strip electrocorticographic (ECoG) monitoring localized the ictal epileptogenic focus as follows: right (n = 6) and left (n = 2) mesiotemporal lobe. In all 8 patients, the left hemisphere was dominant for language function based on intracarotid amytal testing. In 6 right-handed patients, ictal déjà vu was associated with a right temporal lobe focus. However, in the 2 left-handed patients, the ictal focus was left temporal lobe. Although ictal déjà vu localizes the epileptic focus to temporal lobe, this experimental phenomenon appears to lateralize to the hemisphere nondominant for handedness.
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