Back to Work After Meningioma Surgery
A patient success story from S.K.
"“I was speaking normally the next day and felt safe throughout the awake mapping.”"
Condition
Left frontal meningioma with speech hesitation
Treatment
Neuronavigation-guided meningioma resection
Patient Story
A 39-year-old teacher with progressive word-finding difficulty underwent awake craniotomy with mapping. In this case she returned to the classroom in about four weeks, with no residual tumour seen on her follow-up MRI.
Recovery Time
4 weeks
Treatment Outcomes
- ✓Gross-total resection confirmed on this patient’s MRI
- ✓No new neurological deficits in this case
- ✓Returned to teaching within about a month
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