Research Article

Primary Cognitive Factors Impaired after Glioma Surgery and Associated Brain Regions

Table 2

Raw scores of cognitive tasks obtained by each glioma patient group.

TaskVisual-verbal learning (sum of word)Word fluency (no. of word)Digit span forward (no. of series)Digit span backward (no. of series)Letter-digit substitution (no. of digit)Concept shift (second)Stroop color-word(time, second)Stroop color-word(no. of error)

Left glioma groupPre45.7 (12.7)53.4 (16.4)7.8 (2.1)7.1 (1.9)33.8 (5.6)38.2 (25.0)38.0 (25.4)1.8 (2.2)
6 M39.5 (14.3)46.2 (17.1)7.2 (2.5)7.2 (2.3)31.5 (6.2)39.4 (12.6)37.3 (20.1)4.0 (5.0)
Right glioma groupPre49.0 (8.9)52.7 (15.7)8.0 (1.8)7.5 (1.8)34.7 (4.7)38.1 (9.2)33.2 (13.1)1.4 (1.6)
6 M49.6 (12.9)53.4 (13.6)8.6 (2.0)8.0 (1.9)35.0 (6.0)37.5 (8.1)26.7 (14.1)1.0 (1.2)

Data are depicted as means (SDs).