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Hemispherectomy for Sturge-Weber syndrome.

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.
AuthorsH J Hoffman, E B Hendrick, M Dennis, D Armstrong
JournalChild's brain (Childs Brain) Vol. 5 Issue 3 Pg. 233-48 ( 1979) ISSN: 0302-2803 [Print] Switzerland
PMID456102 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
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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