Publications by authors named "Lena Niemann"
Article Synopsis
- Cerebral metastases are the most common tumors in the brain, and surgery is an important part of treating them, but it often doesn’t fully control the problem.
- When doctors remove these tumors with standard methods, they have a high chance of coming back, especially if they don't use a type of radiation therapy afterward.
- New surgical techniques, like special imaging to better target the tumors and different surgery methods, show promise in reducing the chances of the tumors returning and helping patients live longer.
Proof of principle: supramarginal resection of cerebral metastases in eloquent brain areas.
Acta Neurochir (Wien)
November 2012
Background: Cerebral metastases are not sharply delimitatable; therefore, microsurgical circumferential stripping of intracerebral metastases is often insufficient for preventing local tumor recurrence. Supramarginal resection significantly improves local tumor control but was suggested not to be suitable for metastases in eloquent brain areas. Therefore, we retrospectively analyzed a series of patients with cerebral metastases situated in eloquent areas for newly occurring neurologic deficits after supramarginal resection performed as awake surgery.
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