Neurologists at Johns Hopkins University qualified her to undergo a daring and new surgery called a hemispherectomy, in which the damaged half of her brain would be removed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The rare procedure is called a hemispherectomy, and though drastic, it was considered the best possible treatment for Jessie, who suffers from Rasmussen's encephalitis, a progressive degeneration of the cerebral cortex that causes uncontrollable seizures. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The operation known as hemispherectomy -- where half the brain is removed—sounds too radical to ever consider, much less perform. ❋ Mac (2007)
This is called a hemispherectomy and is most commonly performed in children. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The procedure, called a hemispherectomy, is not without danger itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Kian had brain surgery, a precidure called a hemispherectomy, to relieve or cure the epileptic fits that have plagued his childhood. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It seems that the only cure for it at the moment is a hemispherectomy ... ❋ Unknown (2009)
Rasmussen Syndrome is a form of epilepsy that requires a hemispherectomy to "treat" ... ❋ Unknown (2009)
Their daughter Jessie had to have a hemispherectomy last summer and is recovering and healthy and a real sweet kid. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The observer, whose radical hemispherectomy to alleviate epilepsy has made him the perfect recorder. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In a hemispherectomy, one half of the cerebral cortex of the brain is either removed frm the cranium or surgically disconnected from the remainder of the brain with the hope of stopping symptoms such as epileptic seizure. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Tagged with brain surgery, hemispherectomy, Rasmussen's encephalitis ❋ Unknown (2008)
In fact, the non-branching view implies you would perish if one of your hemispheres were transplanted and the other left in place: you can survive hemispherectomy only if the excised hemisphere is immediately destroyed. ❋ Olson, Eric T. (2008)
The incredible thing is that if the hemispherectomy is done when a patient is very young, the remaining hemisphere does double duty and the child often develops normally. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I asked (neurosurgeon George) Jallo if he remembered his first hemispherectomy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Freeman once saw a small boy who made good progress for six months following a hemispherectomy, after which he began to deteriorate. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This week's New Yorker features an engaging article by Christine Kenneally about hemispherectomy, perhaps "the most radical procedure in neurosurgery." ❋ Unknown (2006)
Two of the pioneers of the procedure, Dr John Freeman and Dr Ben Carson are also featured, who explain how the team at John Hopkins first tackled a left hemispherectomy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
