29 Peri-insular Hemispherotomy

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10.1055/b-0034-84140 29 Peri-insular HemispherotomyWetjen, Nicholas M., Kestle, John R. W. Anatomical hemispherectomy has proven to be an effective surgical treatment for epilepsy when the epileptic pathology involves a large part…

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32 Hippocampal Transection

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10.1055/b-0034-84143 32 Hippocampal TransectionShimizu, Hiroyuki Hippocampal transection was first reported in 2006 as a new surgical treatment for temporal lobe epilepsy.1 Using this method, postoperative verbal memory can be preserved…

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28 Transsylvian Hemispheric Deafferentation

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10.1055/b-0034-84139 28 Transsylvian Hemispheric DeafferentationSchramm, Johannes As outlined in Chapter 24, functional hemispherectomy, hemispherotomy, or hemispherical deafferentation are closely related surgical options for patients with medically intractable seizures resulting from…

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36 Surgical Failure and Reoperation

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10.1055/b-0034-84148 36 Surgical Failure and ReoperationBlount, Jeffrey P., Kim, Hyunmi, Rozzelle, Curtis J., Kankirawatana, Pongkiat In children, localization-related medically refractile epilepsy (LRMRE) is inherently neocortical in origin. By far the…

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27 Functional Hemispherectomy at UCLA

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10.1055/b-0034-84138 27 Functional Hemispherectomy at UCLALam, Sandi, Mathern, Gary W. Cerebral hemispherectomy remains one of the more common and conceptually dramatic types of pediatric epilepsy surgery. In the 2004 International…

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25 Anatomical Hemispherectomy

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10.1055/b-0034-84136 25 Anatomical HemispherectomyRocco, Concezio Di, Fountas, Kostas N., Massimi, Luca Anatomical hemispherectomy is the surgical procedure used to remove one cerebral hemisphere, with or without sparing the basal ganglia,…

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30 Corpus Callosotomy

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10.1055/b-0034-84141 30 Corpus CallosotomyWong, Tai-Tong, Kwan, Shang-Yeong, Chang, Kai-Ping Approximately 10% of children with newly diagnosed epilepsy develop intractable seizures.1,2 Surgical management of children with medically intractable seizures includes resective…

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