Brain 17 Vienna

Surgery of gliomas

The extent of resection is of prognostic value (Li YM, Suki D, Hess K, Sawaya R: The influence of maximum safe resection of glioblastoma on survival in 1229 patients: Can we do better than gross-total resection?; J Neurosurg. 2016 Apr;124(4):977-88; Smith JS, Chang EF, Lamborn KR, et al.: Role of extent of resection in the long-term outcome of low- grade hemispheric gliomas. J Clin Oncol 2008; 26: 1338–1345. The resected tumor volume is predictive for malignant transformation in low grade glioma (Duffau H: A new philosophy in surgery for diffuse low-grade glioma (DLGG): oncological and functional outcomes. Neurochirurgie 2013; 59: 2–8)

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