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Clinical picture Half a brain Johannes Borgstein, Caroline Grootendorst
This 7-year-old girl had a hemispherectomy at the age of 3 for Rasmussen syndrome (chronic focal encephalitis). Intractable epilepsy had already led to right-sided hemiplegia and severe regression of language skills. Though the dominant hemisphere was removed, with its language centres and the motor control for the left side of her body, the child is fully bilingual in Turkish and Dutch, while even her hemiplegia has partially recovered and is only noticeable by a slight spasticity of her left arm and leg. She leads an otherwise normal life. University Hospital Rotterdam, 3015 GJ Rotterdam, Netherlands (J Borgstein MD, C Grootendorst MD)
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