Chronic cortical stimulation for amyotropic lateral sclerosis: A report of four consecutive operated cases after a 2-year follow-up: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Sidoti, Carmelo ^a   Agrillo, Umberto ^a  

^a SANDRO PERTINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motor cortex stimulation; Single photon emission computed tomography; Stereotaxis; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SUICIDE; BRAIN CORTEX; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; GENE THERAPY; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOTE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RILUZOLE; VACCINE;

EID: 32244445128     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000195115.30783.3A     Document Type: Article

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