Rachel, Who Underwent a Cerebral Hemispherectomy at UCLA (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences

Rachel, Who Underwent a Cerebral Hemispherectomy at UCLA

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This is Rachel, who underwent a cerebral hemispherectomy at UCLA. A new study from the UCLA Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program has found that surgery at UCLA to treat catastrophic pediatric epilepsy -- cerebral hemispherectomy being one type --; has improved over the past two decades and has led to more successful outcomes, including freedom from seizures.

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Roxanne Cogil

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