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ArticleBrain sciences2022

Characteristics of Microstructural Changes Associated with Glioma Related Epilepsy: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Study.

Hong Zhang, Chunyao Zhou, Qiang Zhu, Tianshi Li, Yinyan Wang, Lei Wang

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Article in Brain sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Hong ZhangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China.
Chunyao ZhouDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China.
Qiang ZhuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China.
Tianshi LiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China.
Yinyan WangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China.
Lei WangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6916-704X
Capital Medical University · CN

Funding

Beijing Natural Science Foundation 7202021National Natural Science Foundation of China 82072786
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: Glioma is the most common primary tumor in the central nervous system, and glioma-related epilepsy (GRE) is one of its common symptoms. The abnormalities of white matter fiber tracts are involved in attributing changes in patients with epilepsy (Rudà, R, 2012).This study aimed to assess frontal lobe gliomas' effects on the cerebral white matter fiber tracts. (2) Methods: Thirty patients with frontal lobe glioma were enrolled and divided into two groups (Ep and nEep). Among them, five patients were excluded due to apparent insular or temporal involvement. A set of 14 age and gender-matched healthy controls were also included. All the enrolled subjects underwent preoperative conventional magnetic resonance images (MRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Furthermore, we used tract-based spatial statistics to analyze the characteristics of the white matter fiber tracts. (3) Results: The two patient groups showed similar patterns of mean diffusivity (MD) elevations in most regions; however, in the ipsilateral inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF), and superior corona radiata, the significant voxels of the EP group were more apparent than in the nEP group. No significant fractional anisotropy (FA) elevations or MD degenerations were found in the current study. (4) Conclusions: Gliomas grow and invade along white matter fiber tracts. This study assessed the effects of GRE on the white matter fiber bundle skeleton by TBSS, and we found that the changes in the white matter skeleton of the frontal lobe tumor-related epilepsy were mainly concentrated in the IFOF, SLF, and superior corona radiata. This reveals that GRE significantly affects the white matter fiber microstructure of the tumor.

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diffusion tensor imagingglioma-related epilepsytract-based spatial statistical

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