Treatment by hemispherectomy of nine cases of spastic hemiplegia, severe mental retardation and intractable epilepsy.

Autor:	Morello, A., O'neill, F., Hoen, T.
Zdroj:	Psychiatric Quarterly; Mar1959, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p44-54, 11p
Abstrakt:	The indications, the technique and the results of hemispherectomy, as a means of treatment of spastic hemiplegia, epilepsy and behavioral anomaly, are discussed. The authors' experience is based on nine cases. One, reported in full in this paper, illustrates the kind of favorable results which one can achieve by hemispherectomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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