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Deep brain stimulation of the posterior subthalamic area and the thalamus in patients with essential tremor: study protocol for a randomized controlled pilot trial

BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) of the thalamus is effective in medication refractory essential tremor (ET). In recent years, evidence has accumulated that the region ventral to the VIM, the posterior subthalamic area (PSA), might be an equally or e...

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Autores principales: Barbe, Michael T., Franklin, Jeremy, Kraus, Daria, Reker, Paul, Dembek, Till A., Allert, Niels, Wirths, Jochen, Voges, Jürgen, Timmermann, Lars, Visser-Vandewalle, Veerle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5043531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27687972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1599-3