Staged resection of multilobar lower-grade glioma: Case report and review of the literature

•Staged surgery is used to treat large skull base tumors but is rarely used for intrinsic brain tumors.•Specific indications for staged surgery remain unclear.•There is a paucity of reports on staged surgery for large multilobar lower grade gliomas (LGG)•We propose potential indications for staged surgery for LGG.