Gamma knife radiosurgery in movement disorders: Indications and limitations

Movement Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 28-35

  Higuchi, Yoshinori ^a   Matsuda, Shinji ^b   Serizawa, Toru ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Chiba Central Medical Center   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Gamma Unit Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

essential tremor; gamma knife radiosurgery; Parkinson's disease; stereotactic radiosurgery; thalamotomy; ventralis intermedius nucleus

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS; TREMOR; VENTRALIS INTERMEDIUS NUCLEUS; PROCEDURES; RADIOSURGERY; STANDARDS; SURGERY;

DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HUMANS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; RADIOSURGERY; THALAMUS;

EID: 84962726001     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.26625     Document Type: Review

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