Arachnoid cysts cause cognitive deficits that improve after surgery

Neurology. 2005 Jan 11;64(1):160-2. doi: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000148724.61966.A4.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Arachnoid Cysts / complications*
  • Arachnoid Cysts / diagnostic imaging
  • Arachnoid Cysts / surgery*
  • Cognition Disorders / diagnostic imaging
  • Cognition Disorders / etiology*
  • Cognition Disorders / surgery*
  • Decompression, Surgical / methods
  • Epilepsy / etiology
  • Epilepsy / surgery
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Frontal Lobe / pathology
  • Frontal Lobe / surgery
  • Functional Laterality / physiology
  • Headache / etiology
  • Headache / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Occipital Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Occipital Lobe / pathology
  • Occipital Lobe / surgery
  • Parietal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Parietal Lobe / pathology
  • Parietal Lobe / surgery
  • Postoperative Period
  • Radiography
  • Temporal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Temporal Lobe / pathology
  • Temporal Lobe / surgery