Diagnostic work up for language testing in patients undergoing awake craniotomy for brain lesions in language areas

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 363-367

  Bilotta, Federico ^a   Stazi, Elisabetta ^a   Titi, Luca ^a   Lalli, Diana ^a   Delfini, Roberto ^a   Santoro, Antonio ^a   Rosa, Giovanni ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Awake craniotomy; Brain tumour; Intracranial tumour localization; Language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTICLE; AWAKE CRANIOTOMY; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; DETERIORATION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DISABILITY SEVERITY; EDINBURGH HANDEDNESS INVENTORY TEST; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MOTOR CORTEX; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE PATIENT; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WERNICKE AREA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; READING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901850517     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2013.854313     Document Type: Article

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