Awake craniotomy for brain tumor resection: The rule rather than the exception?

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 240-247

  Brown, Tyler ^a   Shah, Ashish H ^a   Bregy, Amade ^a   Shah, Nirav H ^a   Thambuswamy, Michael ^a   Barbarite, Eric ^a   Fuhrman, Thomas ^a   Komotar, Ricardo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Awake craniotomy; systematic review; tumor resection

Indexed keywords

AWAKE CRANIOTOMY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CRANIOTOMY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84880040311     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: 15371921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANA.0b013e318290c230     Document Type: Review

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