Language mapping during awake brain surgery in a deaf patient with a brain tumor: illustrative case
Prior to surgery for brain lesions in deaf patients, careful preoperative assessment and intraoperative testing (including the presence of an experienced ASL sign interpreter) is required to understand the distribution of language processing within the brain and to minimize postoperative morbidity. https://thejns.org/doi/10.3171/CASE2597.
Authors
- Katherine Connelly
- Vinodh A. Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8322-1233)
- Elizabeth Silva
- Ho‐Ling Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0284-5889)
- Frederick F. Lang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3747-873X)
- David Ferson
- Kyle R. Noll (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7105-1900)
- Mariana Bradshaw
- Ravi Tummala
- Ene Chibawanye I.
Institutions
- Cleveland Clinic (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Cleveland Clinic Akron General (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Neurosurgery Case Lessons
- Published
- 2025-05-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3171/case2597
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.89