Table II.
Language Outcome and examination preoperative, immediately postoperative and at 3 months after surgery
| DO‐80a | Boston diagnostic aphasia examination | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Id | Final language outcome | Preoperative | Immediately postoperative | At 3 months | Preoperative | Immediately postoperative | At 3 months |
| 1 | Improvement | 77 (1/1/1/0) | 80 (0/0/0/0) | 80 (0/0/0/0) | Normal | Normal | Normal |
| 2 | Stable | 80 (0/0/0/0) | na | 80 (0/0/0/0) | Normal | na | Normal |
| 3 | Stable | 80 (0/0/0/0) | 68 (4/8/0/0) | 78 (1/1/0/0) | na | Syntactic comprehension | normal |
| Semantics | |||||||
| 4 | Improvement | 72 (5/2/1/0) | 77 (3/0/0/0) | na | Syntactic comprehension | Syntactic comprehension, reading | na |
| 5 | Stable | 78 (0/1/1/0) | na | 78 (0/1/1/0) | Normal | na | Normal |
| 6 | Stable | 78 (2/0/0/0) | 69 (6/4/1/0) | 77 (0/3/0/0) | na | na | Normal |
| 7 | Stable | 79 (0/1/0/0) | 63 (3/9/2/3) | 80 (0/0/0/0) | Normal | Syntactic comprehension | Normal |
| Reading, writing | |||||||
| 8 | Slight decrease | 77 (1/1/1/0)) | 64 (12/2/2/0) | 66 (9/4/1/0) | Normal | Syntactic comprehension | Discrete dysnomia, semantic paraphasia, dyssyntaxia |
a
Total (anomia/semantic paraphasia/phonological paraphasia/perseveration).
na, not available.