Hemispherectomy For Childhood Epilepsy: A 36‐Year Study
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 29 (5) , 592-600
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1987.tb08501.x
Abstract
Between 1950 and the present day 17 patients who had been treated for hemiplegic epilepsy by hemispherectomy were followed up. The outcomes of surgery in terms of survival, arrest of dementia, relief from gross disorders of behavior and from habitual epilepsy were uniformly good. It is concluded that hemispherectomy has an enduring role in the treatment of hemiplegic epilepsy for patients who are carefully selected, prepared and postoperatively rehabilitated.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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