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WORLD NEUROSURGERY
卷 152, 期 -, 页码 E652-E665出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.06.039
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Cortical thickness; Hippocampus; Mammillary body; Papez circuit; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Temporal lobe resection; Volumetry
Surgical resection can reduce seizure frequency in medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy, but its effects on brain circuitry are poorly understood. This study found volume reductions in the contralesional hippocampus and bilateral mammillary bodies after surgery, as well as significant changes in cortical thickness across the brain. Postoperative verbal memory function was associated with cortical thickness changes in specific brain regions.
OBJECTIVE: Surgical resection can decrease seizure frequency in medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy. However, the functional and structural consequences of this intervention on brain circuitry are poorly understood. We investigated structural changes that occur in brain circuits after mesial temporal lobe resection for refractory epilepsy. Specifically, we used neuroimaging techniques to evaluate changes in 1) contralesional hippocampal and bilateral mammillary body volume and 2) brain-wide cortical thickness. METHODS: Serial T1-weighted brain magnetic resonance images were acquired before and after surgery (1.6 +/- 0.5 year interval) in 21 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (9 women, 12 men; mean age, 39.4 +/- 11.5 years) who had undergone unilateral temporal lobe resection (14 anterior temporal lobectomy; 7 selective amygdalohippocampectomy). Blinded manual segmentation of the unresected hippocampal formation and bilateral mammillary bodies was performed using the Pruessner and Copenhaver protocols, respectively. Brain-wide cortical thickness estimates were computed using the CIVET pipeline. RESULTS: Surgical resection was associated with a 5% reduction in contralesional hippocampal volume (P < 0.01) and a 9.5% reduction in mammillary body volume (P = 0.03). In addition, significant changes in cortical thickness were observed in contralesional anterior and middle cingulate gyrus and insula (P-FALSE DISCOVERY RATE < 0.01) as well as in other temporal, frontal, and occipital regions (P-FALSE DISCOVERY RATE < 0.05). Postoperative verbal memory function was significantly associated with cortical thickness change in contralesional inferior temporal gyrus (R-2 = 0.39; P = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that mesial temporal lobe resection is associated with both volume loss in spared Papez circuitry and changes in cortical thickness across the brain.
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