Awake craniotomy to maximize glioma resection: Methods and technical nuances over a 27-year period

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 325-339

  Hervey Jumper, Shawn L ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Lau, Darryl ^a   Molinaro, Annette M ^a   Perry, David W ^b   Meng, Lingzhong ^c   Berger, Mitchel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Awake craniotomy; Cigarette smoking; Cortical stimulation mapping; Diagnostic and operative techniques; Glioblastoma; Glioma

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWAKE CRANIOTOMY; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMANGIOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANCER GRADING; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CRANIOTOMY; ENCEPHALITIS; GLIOMA; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LARYNGEAL MASK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR TUMOR; WORK EXPERIENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PATIENT POSITIONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942159634     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.10.JNS141520     Document Type: Article

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