Current clinical application of deep-brain stimulation for essential tremor

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 1859-1865

  Chopra, Amit ^a   Klassen, Bryan T ^a   Stead, Matt ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep brain stimulation (DBS); Efficacy; Essential tremor (ET); Posterior subthalamic area (PSA); Safety; Ventral intermediate (VIM) nucleus

Indexed keywords

BODY DISEQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEVICE INFECTION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHASIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ESSENTIAL TREMOR RATING SCALE; FAHN TOLOSA MARIN TREMOR RATING SCALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEAD FRACTURE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROSURGERY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN INJURY; SUBTHALAMUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS VENTRAL INTERMEDIATE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84888879543     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S32342     Document Type: Review

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