Language testing during awake "anesthesia" in a bilingual patient with brain lesion adjacent to Wernicke's area

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 938-939

  Bilotta, Federico ^a,b   Stazi, Elisabetta ^a   Delfini, Roberto ^a   Rosa, Giovanni ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; AWAKE ANESTHESIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WERNICKE AREA;

EID: 79953171839     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31820bd1a4     Document Type: Article

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