Unilateral magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor: Practices and clinicoradiological outcomes

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 257-264

  Chang, Won Seok ^a   Jung, Hyun Ho ^a   Kweon, Eun Jung ^a   Zadicario, Eyal ^b   Rachmilevitch, Itay ^b   Chang, Jin Woo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; ECHOGRAPH; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND THALAMOTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITIONING DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; STEREOTACTIC DEVICE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; BRAIN MAPPING; DISABILITY; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923171351     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2014-307642     Document Type: Article

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