Introduction Low-grade gliomas are a group of intrinsic brain tumors, mainly occurring with seizures in young patients, appearing on conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as highly infiltrative nonenhancing masses, well visible in fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images, involving one to…
19.1 Introduction About 20,000 people/year are diagnosed with primary brain cancers in Europe. The 5-year survival rate is around 33%, additionally there is an extensive socioeconomic costs . Gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors. Historically they have been…
7.1 Introduction Language and cognitive mapping is recommended in patients with intrinsic tumors involving language or cognitive pathways. Traditionally, this type of mapping was limited to patients harboring lesions in the so-called dominant hemisphere, where language was thought to be…