An autopsy case of the schizophrenic 32 years after lobotomy

Neuropathology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-60

  Arai, Yoshifumi ^a   Tsutsui, Yoshihiro ^a   Shinmura, Yuichiro ^b   Kosugi, Tomoki ^b   Nishikage, Hirofumi ^b   Yamamoto, Junnosuke ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kakegawa City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe cysts; Lobotomy leucotomy; Schizophrenia; Thalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CYST; CASE REPORT; CELL DEGENERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIA; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSURGERY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; CYSTS; FATAL OUTCOME; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOSURGERY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMUS;

EID: 0035069817     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1789.2001.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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