Gamma knife pallidotomy: Case report

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 442-445

  Bonnen, J G ^a,d   Iacono, R P ^b   Lulu, B ^c   Mohamed, A S ^b   Gonzalez, A ^b   Schoonenberg, T ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Physiologic target localization; Posteroventral pallidotomy; Radionecrosis; Spacial misregistrations; Thalamotomy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; RISK; THALAMOTOMY; THERMOCOAGULATION;

AGED; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEMIANOPSIA; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030993607     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01808881     Document Type: Article

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