Developmental Outcome Following Hemispherectomy for Hemimegalencephaly

Abstract

Investigators at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, studied the effect of early hemispherectomy on development in a consecutive series of 12 infants with hemimegalencephaly (HME) and epileptic encephalopathy.

Keywords

• hemimegalencephaly
• epileptic encephalopathy
• developmental quotient