Acute naming deficits following dominant temporal lobectomy: prediction by age at 1st risk for seizures.

Authors

• P Stafiniak
• A J Saykin
• M R Sperling
• D B Kester
• L J Robinson
• M J O'Connor
• R C Gur

Publication/Presentation Date

10-1-1990

Abstract

Age at 1st risk for seizures may predict anomia following dominant anterior temporal lobectomy. We assessed confrontation naming before and 2 to 3 weeks after surgery in 45 right-handed patients grouped by side of focus and presence or absence of early (less than or equal to 5 years) risk factors. After left lobectomy, 6 of 10 (60%) patients with no early risks demonstrated significant decline (greater than or equal to 25%) in naming, but none of the patients with early risks showed this decline. After right lobectomy, there was no change. Cerebral representation of naming may be atypical in patients with early risks.

Volume

40

Issue

10

First Page

1509

Last Page

1512

ISSN

0028-3878

Published In/Presented At

Stafiniak, P., Saykin, A. J., Sperling, M. R., Kester, D. B., Robinson, L. J., O'Connor, M. J., & Gur, R. C. (1990). Acute naming deficits following dominant temporal lobectomy: prediction by age at 1st risk for seizures. Neurology, 40(10), 1509–1512. https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.40.10.1509

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

2215940

Department(s)

Department of Medicine

Document Type

Article