Cutaneous electrosurgery in a patient with a deep brain stimulator

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 415-417

  Weaver, Jeffrey ^a   Kim, Susan J ^a   Torres, Abel ^a,b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMOSURGERY; DEVICE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROSURGERY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; HUMANS; MALE; MOHS SURGERY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; TREMOR;

EID: 0032973735     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.1999.08167.x     Document Type: Article

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