Risk factors associated with postoperative mortality in patients with esophageal cancer

Saito, T.; Kinoshita, T.; Shigemitsu, Y.; Shimoda, K.; Katsuta, T.; Miyahara, M.; Kobayashi, M.

International Surgery 78(2): 93-98

1993


ISSN/ISBN: 0020-8868
PMID: 8354629
Document Number: 420538
We set out to test the hypothesis that patients with frontal damage are specifically disabled in carrying out tasks requiring a high level of controlled attention. A group of patients with frontal lesions and another group of patients with retrorolandic lesions were tested for selective attention on a computerized task designed to produce a conflict situation between automatic and controlled processes. Frontal patients proved to be significantly more prone to errors of commission (false alarms) than retrorolandic patients.

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