Resection probability maps for quality assessment of glioma surgery without brain location bias.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intraoperative brain stimulation mapping reduces permanent postoperative deficits and extends tumor removal in resective surgery for glioma patients. Successful functional mapping is assumed to depend on the surgical team's expertise. In this study, glioma resection results are quantified and compared using a novel approach, so-called resection probability maps (RPM), exemplified by a surgical team comparison, here with long and short experience in mapping.

Methods

Adult patients with glioma were included by two centers with two and fifteen years of mapping experience. Resective surgery was targeted at non-enhanced MRI extension and was limited by functional boundaries. Neurological outcome was compared. To compare resection results, we applied RPMs to quantify an

SUBMITTER: De Witt Hamer PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3765204 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature