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Minimally Invasive Thumb-sized Pterional Craniotomy for Surgical Clip Ligation of Unruptured Anterior Circulation Aneurysms
Published on: August 11, 2015
Surgical treatment of anterior callosal tumors
V D'Angelo1, M Napolitano, L Gorgoglione
1Department of Neurosurgery, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital IRCCS, S. Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy.
Objective:
Thirteen patients with neoplasm of anterior corpus callosum have undergone our observation during the last two years.
Methods:
For the diagnosis, all the patients underwent TC, NMR and stereotactic biopsy. In 6 cases with glioblastomas, a radiation treatment was adopted. The other 7 patients underwent total surgical treatment in 5 cases, and partial in 2 cases, as documented by postoperative contrast-enhanced CT scanning. Histologically, there were: 3 glioblastomas, 1 grade III astrocytoma, 1 neuroblastoma (PNET), 2 pilocytic astrocytomas.
Results:
Neuropsychological tests carried out on the 5 patients still living showed persistent disturbances of verbal memory in all five and disturbances of verbal phonological fluency in 3 cases. No patient presented apraxia, dysgraphia and dyslexia.
Conclusions:
Thus, no severe neuropsychological deficits developed after surgical treatment of anterior callosal tumors.
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