Abstract:The authors present a patient with medically intractable left-sided temporal lobe epilepsy and severe memory impairments. After failure of the intracarotid amobarbital procedure for postoperative memory prediction, a superselective Wada test via the anterior choroid artery was carried out. With regard to a sufficient memory performance during this superselective procedure, the patient underwent selective amygdalohippocampectomy. Postoperatively, the patient has become seizure-free with nearly unchanged memory … Show more
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