Onkologie. 2021:15(5):213-217 | DOI: 10.36290/xon.2021.041

Surgical treatment of brain gliomas

Pavel Fadrus¹, Martin Smrčka¹, Vilém Juráň¹, Eduard Neuman¹, Marek Sova¹, Miloš Duba¹, Soňa Kryštofová¹, Radek Lakomý², Tomáš Kazda³, Marek Večeřa⁴, Tereza Kopřivová⁵, Václav Vybíhal¹

¹ Neurochirurgická klinika, Fakultní nemocnice Brno a Lékařská fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Brno

² Klinika komplexní onkologické péče, Masarykův onkologický ústav, Brno

³ Klinika radiační onkologie, Masarykův onkologický ústav, Brno

⁴ CEITEC - Středoevropský technologický institut, Masarykova univerzita, Brno

⁵ Klinika radiologie a nukleární medicíny, Fakultní nemocnice Brno a Lékařská fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Brno

The most common primary intra-axial brain tumours are gliomas (40-50 % of all CNS tumours). Although the predominantly invasive and infiltrative nature of gliomas is responsible for the impossibility of curative resection, the primary goal of surgical procedures is to resect these tumours as much as possible. It is now widely accepted that radical surgical resection of gliomas is significantly more effective than less radical resection or biopsy and has a positive impact on OS and PFS. The aim of this review article is to provide basic and up-to-date information on the current, so-called multimodal options, for radical surgical resection of brain gliomas.

Keywords: brain gliomas, LGG, HGG, surgical resection.

Published: October 11, 2021  Show citation