Clinical significance of preoperative fibre-tracking to preserve the affected pyramidal tracts during resection of brain tumours in patients with preoperative motor weakness

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 716-721

  Mikuni, Nobuhiro ^a   Okada, Tsutomu ^a   Enatsu, Rei ^a   Miki, Yukio ^a   Urayama, Shin Ichi ^a   Takahashi, Jun A ^a   Nozaki, Kazuhiko ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRACKING; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURONAVIGATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 34347226312     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.099952     Document Type: Article

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