Stereotactic radiosurgical pallidotomy and thalamotomy with the gamma knife: MR imaging findings with clinical correlation - Preliminary experience

Radiology

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 143-150

  Friedman, David P ^a   Goldman, H Warren ^a   Flanders, Adam E ^a   Gollomp, Stephen M ^b   Curran Jr , Walter J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lankenau Medical Building East ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia, MR; Parkinson disease; Stereotaxis; Thalamus; Therapeutic radiology, technology

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIDOTOMY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TREMOR;

EID: 0033006465     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.212.1.r99jl34143     Document Type: Article

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