Table 3.

Supratotal resection of WHO grade III gliomas (literature review).

	Number of patients	Tumor classification (WHO grading)	Definition of supratotal resection	Number of supratotal resection case (%)	Adjuvant therapy	Clinical outcome	Mean follow-up duration and outcomes
Motomura et al. (53)	9	WHO grade II glioma, WHO grade III glioma	Tumor resection extending beyond the abnormal MRI-verified area, which indicated that the volume of the postoperative cavity was larger than the preoperative tumor volume	9 (100%)	NA	WMS-R, SLTA, FAB, WAIS-III	NA NA
Rossi et al. (70)	319	WHO grade II glioma, WHO grade III glioma	Complete removal of any signal abnormalities, with the volume of the postoperative cavity larger than preoperative tumor volume	110 (35%)	Chemoradiotherapy (17.6%), chemotherapy only (41.2%)	Adjuvant treatment, anaplastic transformation, postop seizures, recurrence rate, OS, PFS, MPFS	6.8 years PFS at 92 months; 94%

WHO, World Health Organization; WMS-R; Wechsler memory scale revised, SLTA; Standard Language Test of Aphasia, FAB; Frontal Assessment Battery, WAIS-III; the third version of Wechsler adult intelligence score; OS, overall survival; PFS, progression free survival; MPFS, malignant progression free survival, NA, not available.