Postoperative ischemic changes following resection of newly diagnosed and recurrent gliomas and their clinical relevance.

Postoperative ischemic changes following resection of newly diagnosed and recurrent gliomas and their clinical relevance.

Conclusions Postoperative infarctions occur frequently in patients with newly diagnosed and recurrent gliomas and do have an impact on postoperative neurological function. In this patient cohort there was a higher risk for ischemic lesions and for deterioration of neurological function after resection of recurrent tumors. Radiogenic and postoperative tissue changes could contribute to the higher risk of an ischemic infarction in patients with recurrent tumors. PMID: 23373806 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Neurosurgery) View Source