eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Medical Case Reports 2374-216X 2019-09-10 7 11 301 304 10.12691/ajmcr-7-11-10 AJMCR201971110 article Sharad Samson Rajmani neersal@hotmail.com 1 Ahmed Al Azri 1 Neeraj Salhotra 1 Samit Biniwale 1 Bashar Al Tunbi 1 Faraz Qayyum Khan 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Khoula Hospital Muscat Oman The excision of lesions around motor strip amounts to profound morbidity in term of neurodeficit in postoperative period. Use of navigation and motor strip mapping, connectome study preoperatively for better surgical outcome are useful tools to minimize the neurodeficit specially in patients who are not a candidate for the awake craniotomy. We present our three patients who underwent brain mapping in the excision and gave good postoperative outcome. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmcr/7/11/10/ajmcr-7-11-10.pdf brain mapping