Table 1.

The main articles cited in this mini review and focused on presurgical planning, DTI-T for AF, and postoperative outcome.

References	Type of study	No. of pts	Results
Goradia et al. (65)	Pre-operative planning and post-operative ouctome	10	Children undergoing left temporal lobectomy for epilepsy. Increase of fiber density in the right AF
Bizzi et al. (29)	Pre-operative planning	19	Aphasia in patients with gliomas is mainly due to damage of subcortical networks
Zhao et al. (58)	Pre-operative planning and post-operative ouctome	11	Adjustment of pre-operative DTI with intraoperative MRI allows preservation of AF during surgical resection
Kinoshita et al. (2)	Pre-operative planning and post-operative ouctome	12	Significant relation between preoperative increasing value of the FA of the arcuate fasciculus in the dominant hemisphere and postoperative language recovery in patients with gliomas
Caverzasi et al. (61)	Pre-operative planning and post-operative ouctome	78	Preservation of AF/SLF on post-operative tractography is related with recovery from post-operative aphasia
Ille et al. (67)	Pre-operative planning and post-operative ouctome	10	Lose of AF on post-operative MRI is related with non-fluent aphasia
Incekara et al. (68)	Pre-operative planning	77	Significant correlation between FA alterations in AF and language deficits in patients with gliomas
Jehna et al. (19)	Pre-operative planning	27	Language functions at presentation in patients with left hemisphere gliomas were worse in case the AF was left-lateralized
Li et al. (59)	Pre-operative planning and post-operative ouctome	54	Post-operative aphasia is developed when glioma resection reaches <5 mm from AF
Jiao et al. (16)	Pre-operative planning and post-operative ouctome	6	Patients undergoing resection of artero-venous malformations in the left IPL recovered from post-operative aphasia due to a compensatory increase of AF fiber density in the right hemisphere