Arachnoid cysts cause cognitive deficits that improve after surgery.
The authors investigated cognition in patients with arachnoid cysts by assessing 55 patients and 32 control subjects on four different cognitive tests preoperatively and 3 months postoperatively. The patients improved their performance from preoperative to postoperative testing, whereas the control subjects did not show a similar improvement.
Raeder
Maria Baroey
MB
Department of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
Helland
Christian A
CA
Hugdahl
Kenneth
K
Wester
Knut
K
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