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Preoperative surgical planning of glioma: limitations and reliability of fMRI and DTI tractography

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JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 127-134

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EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA
DOI: 10.23736/S0390-5616.18.04597-6

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Glioma; Brain mapping; Magnetic resonance imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging

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Brain mapping techniques (intraoperative neurophysiology and neuropsychology) represent the gold standard in glioma surgery, and particularly in glioma resection. Since the introduction of MRI in the clinical practice, several advanced applications have been developed, like functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion imaging-based tractography (DTI), which both have an application in glioma surgery. fMRI allows to identify cortical areas related to a specific function, DTI allows to reconstruct a model of the sub-cortical connectivity. This paper describes the clinical application of fMRI and DTI, enlightening sensitivity and specificity in comparison to gold standard and underlining their limitations in surgical decision making.

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