Dominant hemispherectomy: preliminary report on neuropsychological sequelae.
The first reported case of continuing survival 6 months after left hemispherectomy for glioma in a right-handed adult shows diminishing psychological impairment. Different degrees of initial impairment and in subsequent recovery of propositional speech, verbal comprehension, reading, writing, and other functions indicate quantitative rather than-qualitative differences in adult left-and right-hemispheric functions.
D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014706:Verbal Learning