title: The use of motor mapping to aid resection of eloquent gliomas.
abstract: Surgery remains one of the oldest and still most important forms of treatment for patients with glioma. The advantages of surgical resection for glioma must be balanced with the potential of operative morbidity to surrounding eloquent brain. To that end, advances in functional brain mapping allow for safer operations with more aggressive surgical resections. A brief history of motor mapping as well as its present day use in aiding resection of eloquent gliomas is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, 200 Trent Drive, Room 4517, Busse Building, Durham, NC 27710, USA. bryan.choi@duke.edu
authors.forename: Bryan D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Ankit I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: Kristen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Batich
authors.forename: Allan H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Sampson
mesh_terms: D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005910:Glioma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000379:methods*; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures