Oh, what a groundbreaking revelation we have here! After an intense period of research from 2020 to 2022, involving 50 whole patients, scientists have finally cracked the code on whether using fancy GPS for brain surgery (neuronavigation) is the secret sauce we’ve all been missing for supratentorial tumor removal. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

Dividing these lucky participants into the “we’ve got tech” group and the “old school” group, researchers embarked on a quest to see if playing a high-stakes game of “Operation” with image guidance made any difference in, you know, minor details like how much of the brain they had to cut open (craniotomy size), how much tumor they managed to scoop out, and whether it actually helped patients dodge the bullet of complications or, heaven forbid, the Grim Reaper himself.

And what did this epic quest unveil? Drumroll, please… absolutely nothing groundbreaking. Turns out, using neuronavigation is kind of like having a high-tech map; it looks cool, but it doesn’t necessarily get you there any faster or make the journey smoother. The size of the hole they cut in patients’ heads? No difference. The amount of time the surgeons spent playing in the brain sandbox? Unchanged. Whether patients got to leave the hospital sooner or with fewer new problems? Nope, all the same.

So, after all that jazz, neuronavigation-assisted surgery for supratentorial tumors seems to be just as effective (or ineffective, depending on your glass-half-full or half-empty outlook) as the traditional “let’s just wing it” method. Who would’ve thought that in the high-tech 21st century, old school might just be as good as it gets?