Surgical identification of brain tumour margins through impedance monitoring and electrocorticography and the potential for their combined use: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Primary central nervous system tumours have poor survival outcomes. Surgery, the first-line treatment, presents technical limitations, such as visualising the whole tumour border. Intracranial impedance monitoring and electrocorticography techniques provide insights into the local field potential characteristics, resistance and capacitance properties of brain tissue. We hypothesised that measurements obtained by either modality can distinguish between tumour and healthy brain tissue intraoperatively.

Methods

A "Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses" (PRISMA)-compliant systematic review was conducted, searching PubMed, Ovid, Scopus, Cochrane and Web of Science. Studies on electrocorticography and impedance monitoring in patients with brain

SUBMITTER: Georgiannakis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11621190 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature