NAVIGATED TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION FOR PREOPERATIVE FUNCTIONAL DIAGNOSTICS IN BRAIN TUMOR SURGERY

Thomas Picht, Sven Mularski, Bjoern Kuehn, Peter Vajkoczy, Theodoros Kombos, Olaf Suess

Operative Neurosurgery · 2009 · 181 citations · 20 references

Abstract

nTMS allowed for reliable, precise application of the magnetic impulse, and the peritumoral somatotopy corresponded well between the 2 modalities in all 10 cases. nTMS is a promising method for preoperative functional mapping in motor cortex tumor surgery.

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