Table 1.
Clinical/demographic data and neuropsychological evaluation for the patients included in the study.
| M1− | M1+ | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | P7 | P8 | P9 | P10 | |
| Lesion | F, motor, LH | F, motor, LH | F, motor, premotor LH | F, motor, premotor LH | F, motor, LH | F, Pm, frontal opercularis LH | F, Pm, frontal opercularis LH | F, Pm, LH | F, frontal opercularis, LH | F, frontal opercularis, LH |
| Histology | Oligoastrocytoma | Glioblastoma | Astrocytoma | Glioblastoma | Atypical Meningioma | Glioblastoma | Oligoastrocytoma | Astrocytoma | Astrocytoma | Metastatic melanoma |
| Tumor grade | Low grade | High grade | Low grade | High grade | High grade | High grade | High grade | High grade | High grade | High grade |
| Lesion volume | 29,5 cc | 60,8 cc | 28,6 cc | 28,3 cc | 42,2 cc | 10,3 cc | 18,3 cc | 45,2 cc | 84 cc | 28 cc |
| Pre-surgery | Seizures (general) | Seizures R (arm and face); paresthesia R side of the body | Paresthesia R side of the body and Seizures (general) | Seizures R (arm and leg) | Seizures R (arm); seizures (general) | Speech disorder | Seizures (mouth) | Motor weakness R side of the body | Paresthesia R (arm and leg) | Motor weakness R leg; dysarthria |
| Age | 26 | 58 | 46 | 52 | 36 | 66 | 31 | 36 | 46 | 62 |
| Sex | M | M | F | F | M | F | F | F | M | M |
| Handedness | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Comprehension | 36/36 | 25/36 | 26/36 | 36/36 | 34/36 | 34/36 | 33/36 | 24/36 | 36/36 | 25/36 |
| Naming nouns | 30/30 | 29/30 | 29/30 | 29/30 | 30/30 | 29/30 | 29/30 | 25/30 | 28/30 | 25/30 |
| Naming actions | 28/28 | 27/28 | 27/28 | 27/28 | 28/28 | 23/28 | 25/28 | 22/28 | 23/28 | 20/28 |
| ST memory | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Oral praxis | 20/20 | 19/20 | 20/20 | 20/20 | 20/20 | 20/20 | 20/20 | 17/20 | 20/20 | 20/20 |
| IMA | 72/72 | 46/72 | 72/72 | 72/72 | 72/72 | 69/72 | 65/72 | 42/72 | 65/72 | 55/72 |
| RCPM | 35/36 | 33/36 | 33/36 | 25/36 | 36/36 | 30/36 | 26/36 | 24/36 | 30/36 | 32/36 |
| Ph. Fluency | 50 | 10 | 26 | 34 | 13 | 34 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 21 |
Handedness (Oldfield, 1971); language, comprehension [token test, (De Renzi and Faglioni, 1978) (cut-off score: 29)]; naming nouns and verbs [BADA, (Miceli et al., 1994) (cut-off score 28/30; 26/28)]; STM, short term memory, digit span: test from Orsini et al. (1987) (cut-off score 4); oral praxis (Spinnler and Tognoni, 1987) (cut-off score 16); IMA: ideomotor apraxia test (De Renzi et al., 1980) (cut-off score 53); raven coloured progressive matrices (Basso et al., 1987) (cut-off score 18); phonological fluency (Novelli et al., 1896) (cut-off score 17). In bold type the patient's performance below the normal range.