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01-02-2022 | Glioma | Letter to the editor - Brain Tumors
Contextualization of post-operative mini-strokes in glioma surgery
Author:
Emmanuel Mandonnet
Published in:
Acta Neurochirurgica
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Issue 2/2022
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Excerpt
In a recent paper, Strand et al. [
4] investigated the incidences and characteristics of strokes in a large series of 539 glioma surgery cases. They found an overall incidence rate of 44%, with a median volume of 1.7 cm
3. They identified several risk factors, including known cerebrovascular disease for sector-shaped infarctions, and tumor volume, perioperative bleeding, and age for larger volume infarctions. Finally, they also described the topography of these mini-strokes. …