Outcome of Hemispherectomy in Sturge-Weber Syndrome

Abstract

A questionnaire was mailed to the parents of 70 patients identified by the Sturge-Weber Foundation as recipients of hemispherectomy between 1979 and 2001, and responses obtained from 32 (46%) were analysed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.

Keywords

• hemispherectomy
• sturge-weber
• anticonvulsants