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Outcome of Hemispherectomy for Refractory Epilepsy
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2007 The clinical features, presurgical workup, and postoperative outcome of 39 patients with medically intractable epilepsy who underwent hemispherectomy from 1996 to 2005 are reported from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
J Gordon Millichap
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Modified hemispherectomy for infantile hemiparesis and epilepsy
Translational Neuroscience, 2020 To investigate the effect and medical imaging of modified hemispherectomy on patients with infantile hemiparesis and medically refractory epilepsy.
Li Yu-Hui +4 more
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Herpes Simplex Virus Reactivation After Hemispherectomy for Intractable Seizures
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2011 Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic report a 23-month-old immunocompetent boy with reactivated herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSE) after a subtotal hemispherectomy for seizures related to HSE-associated right middle cerebral artery infarction at 7 ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Rwanda Medical Journal, 2022 Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a form of severe epileptic encephalopathy in children. LGS with encephalomalacia cysts is rare in children. We report a six-year-old mentally retarded boy who was referred for an intractable seizure.
P. I. Gunawan, W. Suryaningtyas
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Epilepsy and Behavior Case Reports, 2017 Hemimegalencephaly (HME) is a rare disorder of cortical development with overgrowth of one cerebral hemisphere. Patients have intellectual delay, hemiparesis and severe epilepsy. Drug-resistant epilepsy is often treated with a hemispherectomy.
Kristin M. Ikeda, Seyed M. Mirsattari
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Seizure outcomes after hemispherectomy for drug resistant epilepsy in childhood and adolescence
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2019 Objective and purpose: Hemispherectomy produces remarkable results in terms of seizure outcomes and quality of life for drug resistant hemispheric epilepsy.
Mashael Khateeb +5 more
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Right Peri-insular Hemispherotomy: 2-dimensional operative video
Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2022 This is a surgical technique video of a right peri-insular hemispherotomy in a child with Rasmussen’s encephalitis. The patient is a 5-year-old boy with focal onset impaired awareness seizures started 6 months before surgery, developing different ...
Cleiton Formentin +3 more
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Outcome of Epilepsy Surgery in Early Childhood
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1999 The medical records of 23 children, ages 0-3 years, who were treated surgically for epilepsy between 1991 and 1996 were analysed at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
J Gordon Millichap
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Эпилепсия и пароксизмальные состояния, 2019 The paper addresses the relatively rare inherited neurodermal disorder – Sturge-Weber syndrome that can manifest in epileptic seizures. We describe updated concepts, epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and surgical treatment of
G. S. Ibatova +6 more
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Speech and oral motor profile after childhood hemispherectomy
, 2010 Hemispherectomy (disconnection or removal of an entire cerebral hemisphere) is a rare surgical procedure used for the relief of drug-resistant epilepsy in children.
Vargha-Khadem, F +5 more
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