Corpus callosotomy in a patient of hemimegalencephaly and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

Brain Dev. 2008 Nov;30(10):643-6. doi: 10.1016/j.braindev.2008.03.003. Epub 2008 Apr 24.

Abstract

We report the case of a girl with hemimegalencephaly (HME) and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) treated by callosotomy at 1 year of age. Over 10 years, her seizure frequency and severity decreased markedly. Hemispherectomy is the main surgical option for HME although HME appears to correlate with a less favorable seizure outcome. However, the clinical presentation of LGS and possible generalized cortical dysplasia, which is indicative of a secondarily generalized epilepsy, might predict a favorable surgical outcome of corpus callosotomy in patients of HME, as in our case.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Corpus Callosum / surgery*
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy / physiopathology
  • Epilepsy / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Malformations of Cortical Development / physiopathology
  • Malformations of Cortical Development / surgery*
  • Syndrome