February 2024 Issue of Neurosurgical Focus: 鈥淟ow-Grade Glioma in Adults: Contemporary Management鈥�

Newswise — Rolling Meadows, IL (February 1, 2024). The February issue of Neurosurgical Focus (Vol. 56, No. 2 [https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/56/2/neurosurg-focus.56.issue-2.xml]) presents eight articles on contemporary management of low-grade gliomas in adults..

Topic Editors: Hugues Duffau, Mitchel Berger, Priscilla K. Brastianos, Nader Sanai, Emmanuel Mandonnet, and Guy M. McKhann II

The editors of this month鈥檚 issue of Neurosurgical Focus on the topic of low-grade gliomas present a selection of articles that 鈥渞eflects recent improvements in the identification of predictive factors of aggressiveness, with the ultimate aim of tailoring neurooncological strategies at the individual level.鈥�

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• 鈥淚ntroduction. Contemporary management of low-grade gliomas: from tumor biology to the patient鈥檚 quality of life鈥� by Hugues Duffau et al.
• 鈥淪uppression of antitumor immune signatures and upregulation of VEGFA as IDH-mutant gliomas progress to higher grade鈥� by Eric P. Grewal et al.
• 鈥淭he use of advanced neuroimaging modalities in the evaluation of low-grade glioma in adults: a literature review鈥� by Jakov Tiefenbach et al.
• 鈥淩adiographic growth rate as a predictor of aggressiveness of diffuse gliomas without 1p19q codeletion鈥� by Arthur Leclerc et al.
• 鈥淔rom molecular signatures to radiomics: tailoring neurooncological strategies through forecasting of glioma growth鈥� by Philip Rauch et al.
• 鈥淭he role of preoperative [¹¹C]methionine PET in defining tumor-related epilepsy and predicting short-term postoperative seizure control in temporal lobe low-grade gliomas鈥� by Beatrice C. Bono et al.
• 鈥淎wake brain mapping paradigms for nondominant hemisphere gliomas鈥� by Linda Wang et al.
• 鈥淎wake intraoperative mapping for the prevention of amusia鈥� by Linda Wang et al.
• 鈥淚s intraoperative mapping of music performance mandatory to preserve skills in professional musicians? Awake surgery for lower-grade glioma conducted from a meta-networking perspective鈥� by Jes煤s Mart铆n-Fern谩ndez et al.

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