MRI-guided laser procedure provides alternative to epilepsy surgery

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy that can't be controlled by medications, a minimally invasive laser procedure performed under MRI guidance provides a safe and effective alternative to surgery, suggests a study in the June issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.