Effectiveness of cerebral hemispherotomy for improving behavioral disorders associated with intractable post-traumatic seizures

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 182-185

  Morino, Michiharu ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^b   Ishibashi, Kenichi ^a   Sakamoto, Shinichi ^a   Tsuyuguchi, Naohiro ^a   Ohata, Kenji ^a   Hara, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioral disorder; Cerebral hemispherotomy; Epilepsy surgery; Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; Post traumatic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE; PRIMIDONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUTISM; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENCHYMA; PORENCEPHALY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646471572     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.182     Document Type: Article

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