Surgical management of drug-resistant focal epilepsy represents a successful treatment option in carefully selected patients. It is therefore of utmost importance to identify patients amenable to epilepsy surgery early enough during the disease course and submit to a pre-surgical evaluation.
The 13th ILAE School for Neuropathology and Epilepsy Surgery is designed to enable participants to better recognize and classify various lesional substrates of drug-resistant epilepsy. Advanced hands-on surgical training will be provided in small groups under the guidance of distinguished tutors who will give practi-cal demonstrations on macro- and microscopic brain specimens.
Participants will also have the opportunity to perform surgical approaches on cadavers and diagnose histo-pathological cases under the microscope.
The workshop has already been held in Germany, Brazil, USA and China since 2013, with a focus
on histopathology and the endorsement of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE).
