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MODERN IMAGING OF BRAIN TUMOURS
TAKE HOME MESSAGE
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Modern imaging offers a series of extraordinary
complementary tools in diagnosis, treatment and followup
of brain tumours
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Unfortunately most of them still need to be validated
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Functional imaging and DTI in a clinical setting do not
substitute cortical and subcortical intraoperative mapping
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Despite advancement in multimodality imaging, definitive
diagnosis of brain tumours still requires histopathology
and molecular analysis in the vast majority of cases.