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Intraoperative Use of Functional MRI for Surgical Decision Making after Limited or Infeasible Electrocortical Stimulation Mapping.

Laura RigoloWalid Ibn EssayedYanmei TieIsaiah NortonSrinivasan MukundanAlexandra Golby
Published in: Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging (2019)
Preoperative fMRI allowed for continuation of surgery in over one-fourth of patients in which planned ECS was incomplete or impossible, without a significantly different incidence of postoperative deficits compared to the patients with completed ECS. This demonstrates additional value of fMRI beyond presurgical planning, as fMRI data served as a backup method to ECS.
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