Preoperative Evaluation with fMRI of Patients with Intracranial Gliomas

Introduction. Aggressive surgical resection constitutes the optimal treatment for intracranial gliomas. However, the proximity of a tumor to eloquent areas requires exact knowledge of its anatomic relationships to functional cortex. The purpose of our study was to evaluate fMRI’s accuracy by compari...

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Main Authors: Ioannis Z. Kapsalakis, Eftychia Z. Kapsalaki, Efstathios D. Gotsis, Dimitrios Verganelakis, Panagiotis Toulas, Georgios Hadjigeorgiou, Indug Chung, Ioannis Fezoulidis, Alexandros Papadimitriou, Joe Sam Robinson, Gregory P. Lee, Kostas N. Fountas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Radiology Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/727810