Lesion analysis for cingulotomy and limbic leucotomy: Comparison and correlation with clinical outcomes - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 152-163

  Yang, Jimmy C ^a,b   Ginat, Daniel T ^a   Dougherty, Darin D ^a,b   Makris, Nikos ^a,b,c   Eskandar, Emad N ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulotomy; Functional neurosurgery; Lesion analysis; Limbic leucotomy; Lobotomy; Psychosurgery; Subcaudate tractotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CINGULECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMBIC LEUCOTOMY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSURGERY; SAMPLE SIZE; VOXEL BASED LESION SYMPTOM MAPPING; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSYCHOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892412417     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.9.JNS13839     Document Type: Article

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