Child Neurology: Functional Evaluation of the Dominant Hemisphere Using Magnetoencephalography Prior to Hemispherectomy

Spriha Pavuluri, Valentina Gumenyuk, Sookyong Koh, Afshin Salehi, Sahara Cathcart, Olga Taraschenko

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Abstract

Rasmussen encephalitis is a devastating progressive inflammatory disorder that leads to debilitating neurologic deficits and intractable epilepsy. Surgical treatment of the dominant hemisphere has been attempted with hesitation, given the lack of effective diagnostic tools to determine the potential functional deficits from disconnection procedures.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)614-617
Number of pages4
JournalNeurology
Volume99
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 4 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Neurology

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