Achieving a cure for hypothalamic hamartomas: a Sisyphean quest?

Jean R egis is a head of Functional Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery in Timone Hospital, AixMarseille University. J. Helen Cross is The Prince of Wales’s Chair of Childhood Epilepsy at UCL-Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom. John F. Kerrigan is an associate professor of Neurology and Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.

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