Awake Surgery for Tumors of the Parietal Lobe: A Preliminary Experience with a New Protocol of Intraoperative Neuropsychological Test for the Monitoring of the Sensory Area Function

Table 1

Patients’ and tumors’ characteristics and postoperative neurological deficit evaluation.

	Handedness	Age (Y)	Sex	Preoperative neurologic deficit	Tumor location	Tumor histotype	Early postoperative deficit	Late postoperative deficit
1	R	52	M	Hypoesthesia/quadrantanopia	Left parietal	Astrocytoma WHO grading II	None
2	R	79	F	Spatial-temporal orientation deficit	Left parieto-occipital	Glioblastoma WHO grading IV	None
3	R	62	M	Visual blurring	Right frontoparietal	Oligodendroglioma (WHO grading II)	Mild sensory and proprioceptive deficit in the left lower limb	Generalized seizures due to relapse of oligodendroglioma and mild hypoesthesia of lower limb
4	R	73	M	Anomia/paraphasia and seizures	Left frontoparietal	Glioblastoma WHO grading IV
5	R	56	M	Astereognosis of left hand and partial seizures	Right parietal	Glioblastoma WHO grading IV	Widespread hypoesthesia of left upper limb and mild dysarthria	Seizures in the left side due to regrowth of glioblastoma
6	R	52	F	Aphasia	Left parietal	Gliosarcoma (WHO grading IV)	None