Comparison of the effects of transcortical and transcallosal removal of intraventricular tumours.
Intelligence and memory functions were tested in 2 patients in whom the corpus callosum had been partially sectioned to remove intraventricular cysts or tumours and in 2 patients in whom similarly-located cysts or tumours had been removed transcortically. A patient with congenital absence of the corpus callosum was also tested. Callosal lesions per se did not appear to be responsible for memory deficits.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000601:surgery*; D002551:Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000601:surgery*; D003560:Cysts / Q000601:surgery; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000601:surgery; D011939:Mental Recall; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology; D011581:Psychological Tests; D014110:Touch