Risk of microdialysis catheter placement and sampling measures
infection, bleeding, seizure
SCARRING, BLEEDING, BRAIN TUMOR, INFECTION
Risks of microdialysis will be discussed with the participants, but the research literature indicates this procedure does not present more than minimal additional theoretical risk. Immediate theoretical risk of the surgery for placement would include bleeding, seizure, tissue scarring or infection. A recent study by Badie et al., with microdialysis catheters being implanted in the peritumoral area in brain tumor patients after resection, reported no morbidity from microdialysis catheter placement or sample collection [