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Author Spotlight: Advancing Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery in Children Through Novel Biomarkers and Enhanced Localization
Published on: September 20, 2024
Child Neurology: Functional Evaluation of the Dominant Hemisphere Using Magnetoencephalography Prior to
Spriha Pavuluri1, Valentina Gumenyuk1, Sookyong Koh1
1From the Department of Neurological Sciences (S.P., V.G., S.K., S.C., O.T.), University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; and Department of Neurological Surgery (A.S.), University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha Children's & Medical Center, NE.
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.

