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Background MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy has been shown to be a safe and effective treatment for essential tremor (ET). Objective To investigate the effects of MRgFUS in patients ...

Although there was improvement in the radiological imaging, his midbrain tremor became intolerable despite medical treatment. The authors performed MR guided stereotactic Vim thalamotomy. With ...

All patients had a family history of ET. The mean duration of disease was 17.4 years (range 10–24 years), and their dominant hand was the right. According to personal preference, the thalamotomy was ...

Clinical data from the trial was used for the approval of bilateral focused ultrasound thalamotomy by the US Food and Drug ...

Health.com: Michael J. Fox keeps up the fight In 1998, Fox underwent a type of brain surgery called a thalamotomy, in which a tiny portion of brain tissue is destroyed. This type of surgery gives ...

The causes of Parkinson's disease come down to genetic and environmental factors that, in turn, produce changes in the ...

A full search of MEDLINE and Cochrane (Ovid) database will be performed limited to time of publication (between January 1990 and February 2017), using ‘tremor*’ AND ‘lesion*’, ‘neurosurg*’ ...

Over the past two decades, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has supplanted lesioning techniques for the treatment of movement disorders, and has been shown to be safe and efficacious. The primary ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2008;4(12):683-694. Traumatic brain injury and aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage might cause lesions in the hypothalamic-pituitary region, including hemorrhage ...

PICCs have a relatively low complication rate, but there are several potentially serious issues related to their use. See Table 2 for signs and symptoms of complications. The first cause is ...