Comparison of thalamotomy to deep brain stimulation of the thalamus in essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 140-143

  Pahwa, Rajesh ^a   Lyons, Kelly E ^b   Wilkinson, Steven B ^a   Tröster, Alexander I ^a   Overman, John ^a   Kieltyka, Jennifer ^a   Koller, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Thalamic stimulation; Thalamotomy

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSTONIA; ELECTRODE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEIZURE; THALAMOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 0035241256     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8257(200101)16:1<140::AID-MDS1025>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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