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Trapped ipsilateral lateral ventricle: a delayed complication of hemispherotomy for Rasmussen's encephalitis
Rajesh Shankar Iyer1, Ravi Mohan Rao2, Karunakaran Muthukalathi3
1Department of Neurology, KG Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil nadu, India.
Abstract:
Hemispherotomy is the currently preferred surgical treatment option for refractory unihemispheric epilepsies. The incidence of hydrocephalus is greatly reduced in this disconnective procedure when compared with the resective procedure of anatomical hemispherectomy. We describe the occurrence of ipsilateral trapped lateral ventricle months after hemispherotomy for Rasmussen's encephalitis. There is enough evidence to suggest that this rare and interesting complication is due to the local inflammatory changes associated with the surgical trauma.
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