What is the role of the uncinate fasciculus? Surgical removal and proper name retrieval

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 405-414

  Papagno, Costanza ^a   Miracapillo, Christiano ^a   Casarotti, Alessandra ^a,b   Romero Lauro, Leonor J ^a   Castellano, Antonella ^c   Falini, Andrea ^c   Casaceli, Giuseppe ^b   Fava, Enrica ^b   Bello, Lorenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

awake surgery; famous face naming; glioma; uncinate fasciculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE GLIOMA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE GLIOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79551707133     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq283     Document Type: Article

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