Article ID: CBB166598493

Battey’s operation as a treatment for hysteria: a review of a series of cases in the nineteenth century (2020)

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Ovarian resection as a treatment for hysteria, called ‘Battey’s operation’ or ‘normal ovariotomy’, was performed in the nineteenth century. Battey later reported that the resected ovaries appeared to have ‘cystic degeneration’. Currently, patients with acute neuropsychiatric symptoms are screened for teratomas for the differential diagnosis of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. There is now a hypothesis that ovarian lesions resulting in paraneoplastic encephalitis were among the patients who underwent Battey’s operation. We identified 94 published cases of Battey’s operation for neuropsychiatric symptoms in the late nineteenth century. Among 36 cases with detailed descriptions, we found 3 patients who showed acute onset neuropsychiatric symptoms with macropathological ovarian findings that were compatible with teratoma. They showed favourable prognoses after surgery and might have motivated the surgeons to perform the operation.

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Authors & Contributors
Nardone, Raffaele
Brigo, Francesco
Walusinski, Olivier
Balasse, Albert
Ambrose, Charles T.
Zweihorn, Chaninah L.
Concepts
Medicine
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Surgery
Hysteria
Mental disorders and diseases
Neuropsychology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
United States
France
Germany
China
Ottoman Empire
Paris (France)
Institutions
Salpêtrière, Paris
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