Linear accelerator thalamotomy

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 106-113

  Frighetto, Leonardo ^a   De Salles, Antonio ^a,c   Wallace, Robert ^b   Ford, Judith ^b   Selch, Michael ^b   Cabatan Awang, Cynthia ^a   Solberg, Timothy ^b  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; linear accelerator; radiosurgery; thalamotomy

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STROKE; THALAMOTOMY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ARM; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; THALAMUS;

EID: 3142693971     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2003.08.033     Document Type: Article

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