January 05, 2007
Temporal typo trauma:
There's a lovely typo in a 1976 paper from the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry that reports on a study about epilepsy after surgery. Check out the last sentence of the abstract:
Incidence of postoperative epilepsy after a transtentorial approach to acoustic nerve tumours.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1976 Jul;39(7):663-5.
Cabral R, King TT, Scott DF.
Sixty-nine patients who had neurosurgical treatment for acoustic neuroma by one of two different techniques were studied with a view to determining the incidence of postoperative epilepsy. Fourty-five patients who had larger tumours underwent a combined translabyrinthine and transtentorial neurosurgical approach. For the others with smaller neuromas a translabyrinthine method was used. Only the combined approach was associated with postoperative epilepsy, and it occurred in 22% of the patients. Epilepsy was associated with temporal love trauma during surgery.
Link to entry on PubMed.
