14 Difficult Gliomas
10.1055/b-0039-172174 14 Difficult Gliomas 14.1 Introduction This chapter is about taking on the bad boys. These are tumors which are obviously high risk, and ones which many, often good tumor…
11 Temporal Lobe Gliomas
10.1055/b-0039-172171 11 Temporal Lobe Gliomas 11.1 The Importance of Temporal Lobe Gliomas Temporal lobe glioma surgery is the foundation upon which excellence in glioma surgery elsewhere is built. In other…
12 Insular Gliomas
10.1055/b-0039-172172 12 Insular Gliomas 12.1 Climbing the Mountain Insular gliomas have a long learning curve. While I was learning to do these surgeries, I found many of the resources for…
10 Frontal Lobe Gliomas
10.1055/b-0039-172170 10 Frontal Lobe Gliomas 10.1 Introduction The frontal lobe (defined for this chapter as the parts of the frontal lobes not part of the motor or premotor cortices or…
13 Parietal and Occipital Gliomas
10.1055/b-0039-172173 13 Parietal and Occipital Gliomas 13.1 Introduction In the section on AVMs in his classic text, Yasargil spoke of parietal AVMs with a great deal of respect, noting that…
9 Going from Scan to Plan in a Glioma Surgery
10.1055/b-0039-172169 9 Going from Scan to Plan in a Glioma Surgery 9.1 Introduction This is the most critical chapter in the book, as it serves as the bridge between the…
8 Functional Testing for Brain Mapping
10.1055/b-0039-172168 8 Functional Testing for Brain Mapping 8.1 Introduction Many of the greatest challenges in brain mapping are epistemological. In other words, our great challenge is figuring out how to…
