Publications by authors named "A V Dimertsev"

Article Synopsis
  • The study looked at how well patients recover their language skills after having brain surgery for a type of tumor on the left side of the brain.
  • Researchers tested 59 patients' language abilities before surgery, right after, and several months later to see how they changed.
  • They found that while some patients didn't recover well, better immediate language mapping during surgery helped with recovery, especially in areas like understanding sentences and using verbs.
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Background: In recent years, temporal lobe encephalocele has become more common in patients with focal drug-resistant epilepsy. Despite available experience, there are still no clear recommendations for choosing the extent of surgery in these patients.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of diagnosis and surgical treatment of focal drug-resistant epilepsy associated with temporal lobe encephalocele.

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Background: Tumors of the paralimbic system were considered inoperable for a long time due to high risk of postoperative complications. However, there have been significant changes in surgical tactics for these neoplasms over the past decades. Despite the improvement of surgical principles for these tumors and development of new approaches, risks of surgical treatment are still high (up to 33.

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