Erschienen in:
22.08.2018 | Case Report
Left perisylvian tumor surgery aided by TMS language mapping in a 6-year-old boy: case report
verfasst von:
Tizian Rosenstock, Thomas Picht, Heike Schneider, Arend Koch, Ulrich-Wilhelm Thomale
Erschienen in:
Child's Nervous System
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Ausgabe 1/2019
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Abstract
Background
Awake surgery to preserve language function in young children is challenging, therefore reliable non-invasive work-up of language functional anatomy is needed to preserve language function at any cost. Furthermore, there are obvious limitations of an awake craniotomy with direct stimulation on a child.
Case report
A 6-year-old boy with a low-grade glioma of the left temporal lobe suffering from epileptic seizures underwent surgery, guided by preoperative transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) language mapping and consecutive DTI fiber tracking.
Discussion and conclusion
We report successful surgery of a language eloquent brain tumor in a young child based on TMS mapping and DTI fiber tracking alone. Surgical treatment of left-sided perisylvian tumors in children is discussed.