Intersurgeon variability in the selection of anterior and posterior commissures and its potential effects on target localization

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-119

  Pallavaram, Srivatsan ^a   Yu, Hong ^b   Spooner, John ^b   D'Haese, Pierre François ^a   Bodenheimer, Bobby ^a   Konrad, Peter E ^b   Dawant, Benoit M ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior and posterior commissures; Deep brain stimulation; Intersurgeon variability; Target localization

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR COMMISSURE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SURGEON; TARGET ORGAN; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

DECISION MAKING; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 40349098266     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000116215     Document Type: Article

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