Resection of supplementary motor area gliomas: revisiting
Patients who developed the syndrome had cavities that were located more posteriorly in the SMA region and in the cingulate gyrus. When the frontal aslant tract (FAT) was preserved, 50% of patients developed the SMA syndrome postoperatively, whereas of the patients with disruption of the FAT during surgery developed the SMA syndrome (p = 0.06).