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Intraoperative MRI to guide the resection of primary supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme—a quantitative radiological analysis

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Patients with supratentorial high-grade glioma underwent surgery within a vertically open 0.5-T magnetic resonance (MR) system to evaluate the efficacy of intraoperative MR guidance in achieving gross-total resection. For 31 patients, preoperative clinical data and MR findings were consistent with the putative diagnosis of a high-grade glioma, in 23 cases in eloquent regions. Tumor resections were carried out within a 0.5-T MR SIGNA SP/i (GE Medical Systems, USA). The resection of the lesion was carried out using fully MR compatible neurosurgical equipment and was stopped at the point when the operation was considered complete by the surgeon viewing the operation field with the microscope. We repeated imaging to determine the residual tumor volume only visible with MRI. Areas of tissue that were abnormal on these images were localized in the bed of resection by using interactive MR guidance. The procedure of resection, imaging control and interactive image guidance was repeated where necessary. Almost all tissue with abnormal characteristics was resected, with the exception of tissue localized in eloquent brain areas. The diagnosis of glioblastoma was confirmed in all 31 cases. When comparing the tumor volume before resection and at the point where the neurosurgeon would otherwise have terminated surgery (“first control”), residual tumor tissue was detectable in 29/31 patients; the mean residual tumor volume was 30.7±24%. After repeated resections under interactive image guidance the mean residual tumor volume was 15.1%. At this step we found tumor remnants only in 20/31 patients. The perioperative morbidity (12.9%) was low. Twenty-seven patients underwent sufficient postoperative radiotherapy. We found a significant difference (logrankp=0.0037) in the mean survival times of the two groups with complete resection (n=10, median survival time 537 days) and incomplete resection (n=17, median survival time 237 days). The resection of primary glioblastoma multiforme under intraoperative MR guidance as demonstrated is a possibility to achieve a more complete removal of the tumor than with conventional techniques. In our small but homogeneous patient group we found an increase in the median survival time in patients with MRI for complete tumor resection, and the overall surgical morbidity was low.

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  1. Diagnostic Radiology, University of Leipzig, Liebigstr. 20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Jens P. Schneider, Matthias Rubach, Thomas Schulz, Juergen Dietrich, Claus Zimmer & Thomas Kahn

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Leipzig, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Christos Trantakis, Dirk Winkler & Christof Renner

  3. Department of Neuropathology, University of Leipzig, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Ralf Schober & Kathrin Geiger

  4. Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials, Leipzig, Germany

    Oana Brosteanu

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Schneider, J.P., Trantakis, C., Rubach, M. et al. Intraoperative MRI to guide the resection of primary supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme—a quantitative radiological analysis. Neuroradiology 47, 489–500 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-005-1397-1

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