Ett intraoperativt ordrepetitionstest på svenska : Baserat på det nederländska testbatteriet Dutch Linguistic Intraoperative Protocol

Sammanfattning: Low-grade gliomas are brain tumours that grow slowly and infiltrate brain tissue. The tumours often infiltrate tissue that is responsible for important functions such as language and motor skills. Resection of tumours in eloquent areas is done during awake surgery, which means that the patient is awake and undergoing testing during the operation. Depending on the area being subjected to surgery and what functions are expected to be affected, different tests are used, which allows a more extensive resection. In language testing during awake surgery, the patient's linguistic abilities can be tested and accordingly be preserved to a greater extent. At Akademiska sjukhuset in Uppsala the language tests currently in use are tests for example visual object naming, sentence production and reading aloud. There has been a growing demand for a greater variety of tests to allow a closer linguistic assessment during surgery. The aim of this thesis is to create a word repetition test based on the Dutch test battery DuLIP, and to conduct a pilot test to evaluate the quality of the test. This resulted in a Swedish word repetition test. A pilot test, conducted on 15 participants, established which words to be included in the test. This test will be used at Akademiska sjukhuset in Uppsala, but can also be used throughout Sweden if desired.