Perioperative seizure in patients undergoing brain mapping under awake craniotomy for language-related eloquent region gliomas: a prospective study.

Background: Awake craniotomy (AC) is standard of care for lesions of eloquent brain areas. One important complication during AC is occurrence of intraoperative seizure (IOS), reported to occur among 3.4-20% of the patients.

Alteration of anxiety and depression after awake craniotomy: a prospective study on patients with language eloquent high-grade glioma.

Background: Awake craniotomy (AC) is considered to achieve maximal safe resection of language eloquent gliomas. Impact of AC on the psychological status of patients (mainly anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD]) is a potential concern. Despite the studies reporting the early postoperative patient's perception after AC, this study has been performed to quantitatively evaluate the long-term influence of AC on the level of anxiety/depression after surgery.