Ventralis intermedius thalamotomy with focused ultrasound for patients with low skull density ratio

Mov Disord. 2019 Aug;34(8):1239-1240. doi: 10.1002/mds.27726. Epub 2019 May 28.

Authors

Kazuaki Yamamoto¹, Hisashi Ito², Shigeru Fukutake², Tetsumasa Kamei², Toshio Yamaguchi³, Takaomi Taira⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
² Department of Neurology, Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital, Fujisawa, Japan.
³ Research Institute of Diagnostic Imaging, Shin-Yurigaoka General Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan.
⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 31136679
DOI: 10.1002/mds.27726

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Bone Density*
Essential Tremor / surgery*
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation / methods*
Hot Temperature
Humans
Hypesthesia / epidemiology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Parkinson Disease / physiopathology
Parkinson Disease / surgery*
Postoperative Complications / epidemiology
Skull*
Surgery, Computer-Assisted / methods
Treatment Outcome
Tremor / physiopathology
Tremor / surgery
Ventral Thalamic Nuclei / surgery*