A case report of Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome / 基础医学与临床

Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome ( DDMS) is a rare epilepsy syndrome which is characterized by cerebral hemiatrophy with ipsilateral compensatory skull changes and contralateral hemiplegia recurrent .Here we reported a case of which the curative effect turned out to be unsatisfied after conservative treatment , physical examination re-vealed mental retardation , facial asymmetry , mild right hemiparesis , MRI scan of the head showed left cerebral hemiatrophy , calvaria thickening , PET-CT showed less functional left cerebral hemisphere .The patient finally un-derwent multi-lobe disconnection to relieve recurrent seizure , whose seizure was well controlled in the following up of one year .