Awake craniotomy for right inferior lobule glioma

Awake Craniotomy in Glioma Surgery

Awake craniotomy

From the Department of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, the Division of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Faculty of...

The Guidelines for Awake Craniotomy

These guidelines are approved by The Japan Neurosurgical Society. The part on anesthetic management is approved by the Japan Society of Anesthesiology and the part on language assessment during awake craniotomy is approved by the Neuropsychology Association of Japan. Copyright of this English version of the Guidelines is reserved by The Japan Neurosurgical Society. Correspondence to: Takamasa K...

Anesthesiologic Management for Awake Craniotomy

Indeed, when dealing with brain lesions located in functional areas, such as sensorimotor, language or vision, neurosurgeons aim at removing the maximum amount of lesion minimizing the risk of producing neurological deficits so as to avoid impairing patient’s quality of life. As a matter of fact, in the span of a few millimetres around the margin of the resection, as well as within the lesion t...

Awake Craniotomy and Coaching

Background: The importance of monitoring cognition during awake craniotomy has been well described in previous studies. The relevance of being coached during such a procedure has received less attention and questions still remain unanswered about what factors are the most important herein. Objective: The aim of this study was to qualitatively analyze what factors were, according to our patients...