POSTOPERATIVE MUTISM AFTER THE CLIPPING OF A DISTAL ANTERIOR CEREBRAL-ARTERY ANEURYSM - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
SELCUKLU A KURTSOY A OKTEM IS KOC RK KAVUNCU IA
Citation
A. Selcuklu et al., POSTOPERATIVE MUTISM AFTER THE CLIPPING OF A DISTAL ANTERIOR CEREBRAL-ARTERY ANEURYSM - A CASE-REPORT, Neurosurgical review, 20(3), 1997, pp. 214-216
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology",Surgery
Journal title
Neurosurgical review → ACNP
ISSN journal
03445607
Volume
20
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
214 - 216
Database
ISI
SICI code
0344-5607(1997)20:3<214:PMATCO>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
A 40-year-old man with mutism developed after clipping a left distal a nterior cerebral artery aneurysm is presented. The most characteristic presenting symptom was complete absence of speech with unimpaired con sciousness which occured on the fourth day after operation. The patien t recovered spontaneously within three weeks. In this paper we discuss the possible pathogenesis and anatomical location of mutism related t o a distal anterior cerebral aneurysm in view of the literature.