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Visual Function after Cerebral Hemispherectomy
Cerebral Hemispherectomy is an effective surgical treatment for children with intractable seizures. However surgery may result in coping strategies to improve vision, including changes in head position and eye alignment [1].
Shauna Berry; Monica Chen; Federico Velez; Gary Mathern; Stacy Pineles
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ObjectivesUnderstanding the dynamics of reorganized network-level brain functions after hemispherectomy is important for treatment, prognostication, and rehabilitation of brain injury, but also for investigating questions of fundamental neurobehavioral ...
Moshgan Amiri (9704405) +4 more
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Rasmussen Syndrome: Response to Thalidomide
A 13-year-old girl with Rasmussen syndrome diagnosed at 5 years, and right-sided seizures refractory to various therapies, including hemispherectomy, responded to thalidomide and is reported from Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
J Gordon Millichap
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Executive Function In Pediatric Patients With Intractable Epilepsy Following Hemispherectomy
Hemispherectomy has gained widespread endorsement as a useful technique for treating seizures in patients with cerebral hemispheric dysfunction. Following this procedure, most patients experience seizure-freedom or a substantial decrease in the number of
Lundmark, Jennifer
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After cerebellar hemispherectomy before the 10th day of life aberrant cerebello-rubral projections develop from the nuclei in the remaining hemisphere, which terminate on the ipsilateral side.
IJkema-Paassen, J, Gramsbergen, A
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Background. Cortical hemispherectomy leads to degeneration of ipsilateral subcortical structures, which can be observed long term after the operation. Therefore, reorganization of the brainstem auditory pathway might occur.
Ning Yao +11 more
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Hemispherectomy for Intractable Epilepsy
Charts of 111 patients, ages 2 months to 20 years, who underwent hemidecortication for intractable unihemispheric epilepsy in the period 1975-2001 were reviewed at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
J Gordon Millichap
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Object. Removal or disconnection of an entire cerebral hemisphere is occasionally used to treat refractory seizures. Patients who have undergone a hemispherectomy provide useful models to study the reorganization of cortical somatosensory representation.
Bittar, Richard G. +5 more
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Literacy after cerebral hemispherectomy: Can the isolated right hemisphere read? [PDF]
Objectives: Cerebral hemispherectomy, a surgical procedure undergone to control intractable seizures, is becoming a standard procedure with more cases identified and treated early in life [33].
Dubinsky, S +3 more
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OBJECTIVE Hemispherectomy is a complex surgical intervention for medically refractory epilepsy, and its surgical sequelae continue to be defined.
Cohn, Rachel +4 more
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