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Hemimegalencephaly
What are the symptoms?
Affected children usually suffer epileptic seizures (see entry, Epilepsy) soon after birth (although these may be delayed until later in infancy) and display learning and psycho-motor difficulties. Later, children will display a hemiplegia, a weakness down one side. The condition may also be associated with facial enlargement and skin disorders. Other disorders may also involve malformation of one hemisphere, without the enlargement. Such children present with similar clinical features and require a similar course of management. The degree of developmental delay varies from mild to severe.
Background
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