PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rajesh Shankar Iyer
AU  - Ravi Mohan Rao
AU  - Karunakaran Muthukalathi
AU  - Praveen Kumar
TI  - Trapped ipsilateral lateral ventricle: a delayed complication of hemispherotomy for Rasmussen’s encephalitis
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2017-222040
DP  - 2017 Oct 17
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2017-222040
VI  - 2017
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-222040.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-222040.full
AB  - 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.