[Surgical resection in combination with stereotaxic cryodestruction in patients with supratentorial gliomas in functionally significant areas of the brain: possibilities of using combined surgical treatment and its results].

A combined method of surgical treatment of glial tumors of the brain is proposed for decreasing risk of complications. The method includes microsurgical ablation of the main volume of the neoplasm and stereotaxic cryodestruction of the residual part of the tumor. Combined surgical treatment was used in 12 patients.

[Choice of approach trajectories in stereotaxic surgery in patients with intracerebral tumors].

An analysis of factors was made which influence the choice of approach trajectories in preoperative planning the diagnostic and medical stereotaxic interventions in patients with intracerebral tumors. Stereotaxic operations were planned and fulfilled on 124 patients with glial tumors of different supratentorial localizations. In planning trajectories with using MRI the passage of stereotaxic cannula through the pial folds and functionally significant zones of the brain were avoided.

[The course of the postoperative period in patients with cerebral gliomas after different volumes and kinds of surgery].

The investigation included 340 patients with cerebral gliomas. Under analysis there were age, gender, neurological status and Karnovsky status before and after operation, localization of the tumor, type and volume of surgical intervention, postoperative complications. It was shown that radical extirpation of glial formations facilitated more favorable course of the postoperative period.