Purpose: To report our experience with hemispherectomy in the treatment of catastrophic
epilepsy in children younger than 2 years. Methods: In a single‐surgeon series, we …

OBJECTIVE Appropriately chosen candidates with medically refractory epilepsy may benefit
from hemispheric disconnection. Traditionally, this involves a large surgical exposure with …

Hemispherectomy for intractable unihemispheric epilepsy (IUE) has long been established
in pediatric patients. This study reports the first series examining hemispherectomy …

Functional hemispherectomy results in good outcomes in cases of refractory epilepsy and
constitutes a unique situation in which to study cerebral plasticity and the reorganization of …

Objectives Hemimegalencephaly (HME) is a rare congenital brain malformation presenting
predominantly with drug‐resistant epilepsy. Hemispheric disconnective surgery is the …

Objective The authors sought to analyze the residual connections formed by the temporal
stem as a cause for seizure recurrence following endoscopic vertical interhemispheric …

Background: Children with seizure disorders unresponsive to medical management may
undergo surgical disconnection of a cerebral hemisphere, or hemispherectomy, in order to …

Objectives: Hemispherotomy (HT) is a surgical option for treatment of drug-resistant seizures
due to hemispheric structural lesions. Factors affecting seizure outcome have not been fully …

Abstract Objects In literature, excessive perioperative haemorrhage and related
haemodynamic instability have been described as major risk factors in hemispherectomy. In …

Purpose: To describe a late complication of hemispherectomy in a patient in whom
symptoms of hydrocephalus developed 36 years after her left‐sided hemispherectomy, the …