Child Neurology: Functional Evaluation of the Dominant Hemisphere Using Magnetoencephalography Prior to Hemispherectomy

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.