Neurocognitive Outcome and Seizure Freedom After Awake Surgery of Gliomas.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Gliomas are often diagnosed due to epileptic seizures as well as neurocognitive deficits. First treatment choice for patients with gliomas in speech-related areas is awake surgery, which aims at maximizing tumor resection while preserving or improving patient's neurological status. The present study aimed at evaluating neurocognitive functioning and occurrence of epileptic seizures in patients suffering from gliomas located in language-related areas before and after awake surgery as well as during their follow up course of disease.

Materials and methods

In this prospective study we included patients who underwent awake surgery for glioma in the inferior frontal gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, or anterior temporal lobe. Preoperatively, as well as in the short-term

SUBMITTER: Reitz SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9023117 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature