Safe removal of glioblastoma near the angular gyrus by awake surgery preserving calculation ability - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-50

  Kurimoto, Masanori ^a   Asahi, Takashi ^a   Shibata, Takashi ^a   Takahashi, Chiaki ^a   Nagai, Shoichi ^a   Hayashi, Nakamasa ^a   Matsui, Mie ^a   Endo, Shunro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Awake surgery; Gerstmann's syndrome; Glioma; Parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCULATION; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATIENT SAFETY; WAKEFULNESS;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 31544453300     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.46     Document Type: Article

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