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What is the best way to understand functional tracts to guide the surgical approach for tumor resection in patients unable to participate in functional MRI?

Such as for patients with significant aphasia secondary to their lesion.
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Neurosurgery · The Ohio State University
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This is really a language question. Motor pathways can be mapped asleep regardless of cognitive status, and nothing done preoperatively replaces direct stimulation for language. The task is to build the best structural and functional model before surgery and then decide whether intraoperative langua...

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