Imaging language pathways predicts postoperative naming deficits.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 18006653.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 2860584.
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Abstract
Naming difficulties are a well recognised, but difficult to predict, complication of anterior temporal lobe resection (ATLR) for refractory epilepsy. We used MR tractography preoperatively to demonstrate the structural connectivity of language areas in patients undergoing dominant hemisphere ATLR. Greater lateralisation of tracts to the dominant hemisphere was associated with greater decline in naming function. We suggest that this method has the potential to predict language deficits in patients undergoing ATLR.
Medical subject headings
- Anterior Temporal Lobectomy
- Language Disorders