Indirect cognitive mapping in glioma surgery in patients not eligible for awake craniotomy - how I do it.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 41201638.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1007/s00701-025-06706-1 and PMC identifier 12594642.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
This paper illustrates a method to map cognitive subcortical white matter pathways in brain tumour surgery, in patients not eligible for awake intraoperative mapping. The latter being the gold standard, it is not feasible in all patients. Illustrated by three cases, the presented method includes a preoperative mapping of both motor and subcortical eloquent structures - such as arcuate fasciculus and basal ganglia - subsequentially using subcortical motor mapping as a landmark to indirectly identify the cognitive structures.
Medical subject headings
- Glioma
- Brain Neoplasms
- Craniotomy
- Brain Mapping
- Cognition