Duarte-Batista, Pedro Coelho, Miguel Quintas, Sofia Levy, Pedro Castro Caldas, Ana Gonçalves-Ferreira, António Carvalho, Herculano Cattoni, Maria Begoña
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neurobehavioral disorder comprising motor and vocal tics. In most cases it is associated with other disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In refractory cases deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a valid treatment option. This paper describes the case of a 15-year-old adolescent with an extremely...
Razmkon, Ali Yousefi, Omid Vaidyanathan, Janardan
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Background: Chronic stimulation of the thalamus is a surgical option in the management of intractable Holmes tremor. Patients with deep brain stimulation (DBS) can encounter infection as a postoperative complication, necessitating explantation of the hardware. Some studies have reported on the technique and the resulting efficacy of therapeutic les...
Mezey, Geza Cahill, Julian Rowe, Jeremy G. Yianni, John Bhattacharyya, Debapriya Walton, Lee Rodgers, Joanne Radatz, Matthias W.R.
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Objective: To evaluate the role of single-session Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GK-SRS) in the treatment of vestibular schwannomas (VSs) with volumes of greater 10 cm3. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed of 103 patients treated with single-session GK-SRS between 1993 and 2011 with a mean follow-up of 6.2 years ± 4.4 SD. Treatm...
Frequin, Henrieke L. Bot, Maarten Dilai, José Scholten, Marije N. Postma, Miranda Bour, Lodewijk J. Contarino, Maria Fiorella de Bie, Rob M.A. Schuurman, P. Rick van den Munckhof, Pepijn
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Introduction: For deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in Parkinson’s disease (PD), many centers employ visualization of the nucleus on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), intraoperative microelectrode recordings (MER), and test stimulation in awake patients. The value of these steps is a subject for ongoing debate. I...
Zheng, Xuan Wei, Xiang-Yu Zhu, Jin Yuan, Yan Ying, Ting-Ting Li, Shi-Ting
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Background: Microvascular decompression (MVD) has been the right choice for glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) patients. However, whether glossopharyngeal/vagal nerve root rhizotomy should be combined with MVD is still controversial. Objective: To evaluate whether glossopharyngeal/vagal nerve root rhizotomy during MVD is necessary for the treatment o...
Drummond, Patrick S. Pourfar, Michael H. Hill, Travis C. Mogilner, Alon Y. Kondziolka, Douglas S.
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Introduction: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the subthalamic nucleus (STN) has been shown to reliably improve several symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in appropriately selected patients. Various factors may preclude patients from undergoing DBS and for them, non-invasive lesion-based therapies such as focused ultrasound and Gamma Knife ...
Lai, Yijie Pan, Yixin Wang, Linbin Zhang, Chencheng Sun, Bomin Li, Dianyou
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is receiving increasing interests for treating pain and gait disorders in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). In an SCS study, it is hard to apply a double-blind approach, especially at low frequencies, as the stimulation normally induces paresthesia which can be perceived by the patient. We herein demonstrate a ca...
Zsigmond, Peter Wårdell, Karin
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Background: Optics can be used for guidance in deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. The aim was to use laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) to investigate the intraoperative optical trajectory along the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) and zona incerta (Zi) regions in patients with essential tremor during asleep DBS surgery, and whether the Zi region c...
Sarica, Can Kucuk, Furkan Ozen, Ali Aksu Sayman, Ozden
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Background: The quality of a scientific meeting can be quantified by the rate of full publications arising from the presented abstracts and the impact factor of the journals in which the studies were published. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the publication rates of presentations from the 2013 World Society for Stereotactic an...
Wang, Amy J. Bick, Sarah K. Williams, Ziv M.
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Introduction: Patients with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) are candidates for neuromodulation procedures. While vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) was historically the procedure of choice for this condition, the responsive neurostimulation system (RNS) has come into favor for its more targeted approach. While both VNS and RNS have bee...
