Neurological Surgery - Epilepsy Surgery
Clinic Description
Adult — Dr. Kim Burchiel
The OHSU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center provides a full spectrum of medical services for patients with epilepsy. For some patients with medically intractable seizures, surgery to remove epileptogenic areas of the brain may be feasilble. In conjunction with Martin Salinsky, M.D., director of the Epilepsy Center, the neurological surgery department (Dr. Kim Burchiel) offers innovative and cost-effective surgical services.
Pediatric — Dr. Nathan Selden
Together with the Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Pediatric Neurosurgery offers comprehensive intracranial epilepsy monitoring, surgery to remove epileptic foci, and implantation of vagal nerve stimulators.
Doernbecher is the only children's hospital in Oregon to offer specialized SPECT brain scanning that is often critical to the identification of seizure foci in the brain as part of planning for potentially curative seizure surgery.
Most surgical procedures involve the use of stereotactic computer-assisted navigational planning and guidance. Innovative research programs include the use of vagal nerve stimulation for patients in whom drugs are ineffective but who are not otherwise candidates for other epilepsy surgery.
Services At This Clinic
- - Digital Video-EEG monitoring, routine and ambulatory EEG - High-field MRI brain imaging - SPECT-Fusion seizure focus mapping - FDG-PET brain metabolism mapping - Intra- and extraoperative cortical electrophysiology - Temporal lobectomy and selective amygdalohippocampectomy surgeries - Extra-temporal surgery for cortical dysplasia and other disorders - Computer-guided microsurgical navigation - Vagus nerve stimulation - Wada testing - Pediatric clinical drug and treatment trials - Comprehensive neuropsychology evaluation
Healthcare Providers
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Kim Burchiel, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Movement Disorders/Parkinson's, Functional and Stereotactic, Neurosurgery, Surgical Pain Management, Epilepsy
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Nathan Selden, M.D., P.h.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.
Neurological Surgery (Pediatric)
