Items Tagged ‘pediatric epilepsy’
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Ghatan Saves Russian Girl Left with Half her Skull
On December 6, 2007, in St. Petersburg, Russia, seventeen-year-old Taya Ogievetskaya was struck by a car that left her with just half her skull. Today you'd never know it, though, thanks to Dr. Saadi Ghatan...
Posted on Feb 28, 2011 by Department Author In Blog, Doctors, Pediatric Neurosurgery Blog -
Pediatric Epilepsy & Seizures
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects people of all ages; however, the incidence of seizures is higher in young children (estimated to occur in as many as 4 percent of all children) than in adults. It is unknown why the developing brain is more prone to seizures than the adult brain. When...
