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, …

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
… We aimed to assess determinants of seizure outcome following pediatric hemispherotomy
children who underwent previous surgery and had seizure recurrence after hemispherotomy, …

Hemispherectomy procedures in children: haematological issues

M Piastra, D Pietrini, E Caresta, A Chiaretti, L Viola… - Child's Nervous …, 2004 - Springer
… with surgically treated epilepsy were admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
of our institution after a hemispherectomy procedure for HME, other diffuse cortical dysplasias …

Technical descriptions of four hemispherectomy approaches: from the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Meeting at Gothenburg 2014

JE Baumgartner, JP Blount, T Blauwblomme… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… , and endoscopic-assisted hemispherotomy. No clinical or outcome data are included. …
surgeons and to improve the understanding of the technical details of hemispherectomy surgery

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. …

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 …

Pediatric hemispherectomy outcome: adaptive functioning, intelligence, and memory

HA Shurtleff, EA Roberts, CC Young, D Barry… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
… We evaluated seizure and NP outcomes and medical variables for all post-hemispherectomy
patients from Seattle Children’s Hospital epilepsy surgery program between 1996 and 2020…

Hemispherectomy in adults and adolescents: Seizure and functional outcomes in 47 patients

RA McGovern, A NV Moosa, L Jehi, R Busch… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
surgery. Twelve of the 47 patients were included in our prior study of 170 pediatric
hemispherectomy … , the most recent hemispherectomy was considered to be the surgery for which …

Hemispherectomy for intractable unihemispheric epilepsy etiology vs outcome

EH Kossoff, EPG Vining, DJ Pillas, PL Pyzik… - Neurology, 2003 - AAN Enterprises
… of all 111 children who have undergone hemispherectomy for pharmacoresistant epilepsy …
seizure control by using a functional hemispherectomy procedure (disconnection of the frontal…