Impact of surgical treatment on tremor due to posterior fossa tumors

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 692-697

  Kinfe, Thomas M ^a   Capelle, Hans Holger ^a   Krauss, Joachim K ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dentatothalamic pathway; Posterior fossa tumor; Surgical treatment; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METASTASIS; NEURILEMOMA; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR;

EID: 41849098888     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS/2008/108/4/0692     Document Type: Article

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