Pediatric functional hemispherectomy: operative techniques and complication avoidance

CC Young, JR Williams, AH Feroze, M McGrath… - Neurosurgical …, 2020 - thejns.org
… In this report, the authors summarize the history of hemispherectomy and its development …
present the surgical technique for a modified functional hemispherectomy/hemispherotomy, …

Hemispherotomy for pediatric epilepsy: a systematic review and critical analysis

AJ Lopez, C Badger, BC Kennedy - Child's Nervous System, 2021 - Springer
… 40 children who were seizure-free after surgery, divided by laterality and early (before 18
months) versus late surgery. … surgery at an early age and right-sided surgery at a later age [35]. …

Risk factors and results of hemispherotomy reoperations in children

MV Santos, TL Teixeira, ES Ioriatti, U Thome… - Neurosurgical …, 2020 - thejns.org
… , because our institution is a reference center for pediatric epilepsy surgery in the country
and has a higher number of referrals of patients with Rasmussen’s disease than average. …

Pediatric functional hemispherectomy: outcome in 92 patients

J Schramm, S Kuczaty, R Sassen, CE Elger… - Acta …, 2012 - Springer
… , this is a retrospective study reviewing the pediatric functional hemispherectomy series.
Since the start of the epilepsy surgery program, we have continuously tried to obtain regular …

Not surgical technique, but etiology, contralateral MRI, prior surgery, and side of surgery determine seizure outcome after pediatric hemispherotomy

G Ramantani, C Bulteau, D Cserpan, WM Otte… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Previous non-hemispheric resective surgery has … the children who underwent previous
surgery and had seizure recurrence after hemispherotomy, no specific etiology or type of previous

Determinants of functional outcome after pediatric hemispherotomy

G Ramantani, D Cserpan, M Tisdall… - Annals of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… study, we included consecutive children aged ≤18 years at hemispherotomy from five
European epilepsy surgery centers who underwent hemispherotomy between 2000-2016 and …

Hemispherectomy procedures in children: haematological issues

M Piastra, D Pietrini, E Caresta, A Chiaretti, L Viola… - Child's Nervous …, 2004 - Springer
… the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of our institution after a hemispherectomy procedure
… either anatomical or functional hemispherectomy, and from non-HME children, regarding …

Hemispherectomy for treatment of refractory epilepsy in the pediatric age group: a systematic review

CJ Griessenauer, S Salam, P Hendrix… - … : Pediatrics, 2015 - thejns.org
… of 10 or more patients in the pediatric age group (≤ 20 years) … procedure, and description
of the type of hemispherectomy. … repeat hemispherectomy with failure of the initial procedure

Functional outcomes of pediatric hemispherotomy: Impairment, activity, and medical service utilization

E Harford, A Houtrow, R Al-Ramadhani, A Sinha… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
… the functional outcomes of hemispherotomy in a pediatric cohort, … specialist services, and
subsequent surgical intervention. … , the first hemispherotomy was considered the procedure of …

Motor and cognitive outcomes in children after functional hemispherectomy

SA Samargia, TJ Kimberley - Pediatric Physical Therapy, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… motor outcomes in children after hemispherectomy (Table 2). … in the majority of children
before surgery, which was typically … were children with MIE who underwent hemispherectomy