Hemispherectomy is the most successful operation for the control of seizures in a very select
group of patients with infantile hemiplegia and intractable epilepsy. The efficacy of …

Hemispherectomy is required in most cases of hemimegalencephaly in order to control
epilepsy refractory to medical treatment. Although there is a general agreement on the …

The term hemispherectomy refers to the complete removal or functional disconnection of a
cerebral hemisphere. The technique was initially developed over 85 years ago to treat …

Functional hemispherectomy/hemispherotomy is a disconnection procedure for severe
medically refractory epilepsy where the seizure foci diffusely localize to one hemisphere. It is …

The serious, late complication of superficial cerebral hemosiderosis, which appears after
several years in 1/4–1/3 of patients who have undergone hemispherectomy, has resulted in …

Hemispherectomy is a valuable procedure in the management of seizure disorders caused
by unilateral hemispheric disease. Modifications to anatomical hemispherectomy have been …

Abstract Objective: From May 1989 to April 1997, functional hemispherectomy was
performed in 8 cases of intractable seizures. We retrospectively analyzed our experience to …

IIC Hemispherectomy and Hemispherotomy Techniques 216 recognize on the mere clinical
ground before the wide availability of CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Silently …

Functional hemispherectomy was reported in 1983 for the treatment of catastrophic
refractory epilepsies in order to reduce the complications derived by the anatomical …

Functional hemispherectomy, indicated for the control of pharmacologically refractory
seizures, has been used at the Montreal Neurological Hospital since 1974. We have used …