Awake craniotomy with brain mapping as the routine surgical approach to treating patients with supratentorial intraaxial tumors: A prospective trial of 200 cases

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-41

  Taylor, Michael D ^a   Bernstein, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awake craniotomy; Brain mapping; Brain neoplasm; Postoperative complications; Resource utilization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0032900989     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1999.90.1.0035     Document Type: Article

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