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What is your approach for testing speech in bilingual patients undergoing an awake craniotomy for glioma resection?

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Neurosurgery · University of Nebraska Medical Center

In a bilingual patient, it is important to assess the patient's language function in both languages. This would include pre-operative non-invasive functional mapping as well as intra-operative awake mapping. Areas of language function and connectivity are less discrete than sensory and motor functio...

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