Outcome of Hemispherectomy for Refractory Epilepsy

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-21-3-5

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Outcome of Hemispherectomy for Refractory Epilepsy

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 21 (2007): Issue 3

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Mar 2007

Abstract

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.

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Kossoff EH Vining EP Pillas DJ Pyzik PL Avellino AM Carson BS Hemispherectomy for intractable unihemispheric epilepsy etiology vs outcome Neurology 2003 Oct 14 61 7 887 90 10.1212/01.WNL.0000090107.04681.5B 14557554
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-21-3-5 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 20 - 20

Published on: Mar 1, 2007

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Rasmussen Encephalitis,

Sturge-Weber Syndrome,

Preclude Epilepsy Surgery

© 2007 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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