Abstract |
Patients with Sturge-Weber disease who have the onset of seizures in infancy invariably face a progressively downhill course which leaves them severely hemiplegic, demented and usually institutionalized because of uncontrolled seizures. During the past 12 years, we have carried out 6 hemispherectomies in infants under 1 year of age who presented with seizures and Sturge-Weber disease. The results have been gratifying. Seizures have stopped, hemipareses have been minimal and intellectual development has been good.
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Authors | H J Hoffman, E B Hendrick, M Dennis, D Armstrong |
Journal | Child's brain
(Childs Brain)
Vol. 5
Issue 3
Pg. 233-48
( 1979)
ISSN: 0302-2803 [Print] Switzerland |
PMID | 456102
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Angiomatosis
(surgery)
- Calcinosis
(diagnostic imaging)
- Cerebral Angiography
- Cerebral Arteries
(pathology)
- Cerebral Cortex
(pathology, surgery)
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Electroencephalography
- Humans
- Hydrocephalus
(etiology)
- Hypoxia, Brain
(pathology)
- Infant
- Postoperative Complications
(etiology)
- Seizures
(surgery)
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome
(diagnostic imaging, pathology, surgery)
- Subarachnoid Space
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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