Thalamic and subthalamic deep brain stimulation for essential tremor: Where is the optimal target?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 840-845

  Sandvik, Ulrika ^a   Koskinen, Lars Owe ^a   Lundquist, Anders ^b   Blomstedt, Patric ^a  

^a Division of Neurosurgery   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deep brain stimulation; Essential tremor; Posterior subthalamic area; Vim; Zona incerta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ESSENTIAL TREMOR RATING SCALE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR SUBTHALAMUS AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBTHALAMUS; THALAMUS; ZONA INCERTA;

EID: 84858751819     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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