Agraphia after awake surgery for brain tumor: new insights into the anatomo-functional network of writing

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-241

  Scarone, Pietro ^a   Gatignol, Peggy ^b   Guillaume, Sophie ^c   Denvil, Dominique ^d   Capelle, Laurent ^d   Duffau, Hugues ^b,d,e  

^a FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE VERSAILLES   (France)

^d PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Agraphia; Awake surgery; Electrical brain mapping; Low grade glioma; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WAKEFULNESS; WRITING;

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 67749120551     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.10.074     Document Type: Article

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