Supratotal resection is a term used in neurosurgical tumor surgery and refers to tumor resection that extends beyond the contrast-enhancing component visible on MRI1. Supratotal resection is used, for example, in selected individual cases in patients with glioblastoma2.
References
Jackson, C., Choi, J., Khalafallah, A.M. et al. A systematic review and meta-analysis of supratotal versus gross total resection for glioblastoma. J Neurooncol 148, 419–431 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-020-03556-y ↩ ↩
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