PMID: 16636508Apr 26, 2006Paper

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

Neurologia Medico-chirurgica
Michiharu MorinoMitsuhiro Hara

Abstract

A 25-year-old man presented with intractable post-traumatic seizures after suffering cerebral contusion in a traffic accident at age 5 years. Cerebral hemispherotomy was performed to transect the neuronal fibers to interrupt connections between seizure foci in wide areas of the brain, and to minimize the resected brain parenchyma. His seizures resolved and behavioral disorders improved, which had been impaired since age 8 years. Increased glucose metabolism in the normal frontal lobe detected by interictal fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography was correlated with the improvements in behavioral disorders. These findings suggest that the effects of seizures may be reversible in brain areas connected with, but remote from, the epileptogenic cortex.

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