The Relationship of Documented Destruction of Specific Cell Types to Complications and Effectiveness in Thalamotomy for Tremor in Parkinson's Disease
- 28 November 1990
- journal article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
- Vol. 54 (1-8) , 207-211
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000100214
Abstract
Microstimulation and single unit recording techniques were used to ex-plore the thalamus prior to performance of 18 thalamotomies in 13 patients. Identified tactile, kinesthetic and tremor-synchronous cells were mapped to scale. Lesion sizes were determined experimentally from lesions made in rat thalami and superimposed on the human maps. Effectiveness and complications were evaluated vis-à-vis documented destruction of tactile kinesthetic and tremor-synchronous cells.Keywords
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