Treatment of functional disorders with gamma knife thalamotomy

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue , 2009, Pages 170-181

  Ohye, Chihiro ^a   Shibazaki, Tohru ^a  

^a Hidaka Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEURALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; THALAMUS;

ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURALGIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; THALAMUS;

EID: 61549097553     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000163416     Document Type: Article

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