Deep brain stimulation hardware complications: The role of electrode impedance and current measurements

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 755-760

  Farris, Sierra ^a   Vitek, Jerrold ^b   Giroux, Monique L ^a  

^a Evergreen Hospital Medical Center   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep brain simulation; Hardware complications; Parkinson's disease; Subthalamic nucleus; Troubleshooting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; DIZZINESS; DYSKINESIA; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; RIGIDITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TREMOR; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; FOLLOW UP; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION;

EID: 44449099094     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21936     Document Type: Article

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