Results of Transorbital Lobotomy in 400 State Hospital Patients

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Statistics are given to illustrate the results obtained following transorbital lobotomy in 400 chronically disturbed patients at the New Jersey State Hospital, Trenton. Approx. 20% have left the hospital; 28% have shown good improvement; 24% have shown fair improvement; 26% are unimproved; the operative mortality is 2%. The greatest number of cases operated were schizophrenics. Female patients generally did better than male patients, although in the 1st year of the study males had been the better. The trend has been for further improvement even after 2 years. A number of patients were operated more than once and even with failure to improve following 1 operation, there is still opportunity for improvement after a 2d operation, Psychiatrically the group as a whole shows marked improvement and economically there has been a great saving considering those discharged and those who now work around the hospital and require far less care than previous to operation, when they had required max. security. The authors urge that all mental patients hospitalized 1 year be considered for this type of operation.

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