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Without further information regarding the exact location of the patient’s tumor, it is hard to comment in detail. However, one way handedness affects awake glioma resection is that while right handed people typically have their language dominance localize to the left hemisphere, left handed individuals are more likely to have right sided or even codominant language function. Assuming this was a right sided tumor, the surgeon probably meant that he also had to account for avoiding speech deficits in this left handed patient that he wouldn’t worry about in a right handed one.