...Jean Filo; Martina L. Mustroph; Melissa M.J. Chua; Philip J. White; Nathan J. McDannold; G. Rees Cosgrove Introduction: Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy effectively treats medication-resistant essential tremor (ET). Usually, intracranial calcifications are excluded...

...Johanna Cuony; Orane Lorton; Emilie Tomkova Chaoui; Camille Comet; Karl Schaller; Rares Salomir; Shahan Momjian; Vanessa Fleury Introduction: Magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy is an effective treatment for drug-resistant tremor. The most frequent side effects...

... underwent staged asymmetric bilateral ablation. In this subset, after initial RF thalamotomy, contralateral pallidotomy was performed in 16 (57.1%) patients (group Vim-GPi), and contralateral lesion of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) was performed in 12 (32.9%) patients (group Vim-STN). The mean duration...

...Rose M. Caston; Justin M. Campbell; Shervin Rahimpour; Paolo Moretti; Matthew D. Alexander; John D. Rolston Introduction: Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy is an incision-less ablative technique used to treat medically refractory tremor. Although intracerebral...

...). Nevertheless, the impact of MRIgFUS thalamotomy on balance is not well established. Methods: Thirty-two patients underwent MRIgFUS for ET and completed 6 months of follow-up. Tremor severity and functional disability were assessed using the Essential Tremor Rating Scale and the Quality of Life in Essential...

...Shayan Moosa; Andrew Craver; David Asuzu; Matthew Eames; Tony R. Wang; William Jeffrey Elias Introduction: The objectives of this study were to determine long-term patient-reported outcomes with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy for medication-refractory essential...

...Kenji Fukutome; Hidehiro Hirabayashi; Yosuke Osakada; Yoshihiro Kuga; Hideyuki Ohnishi Introduction: Essential tremor is the most common movement disorder in adults. Bilateral symptoms are typical; however, bilateral thalamotomy for essential tremor is associated with a high probability of adverse...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Connectome Brain Radiosurgery Thalamotomy Tremor Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) was invented by Lars Leksell at the beginning of the 1950s, originally as a primary tool for treating functional disorders [1, 2]. Later...

... Myoclonus-dystonia syndrome Globus pallidus Ventral intermediate nucleus Deep brain stimulation Pallidotomy Thalamotomy Myoclonus-dystonia syndrome (MDS) is a rare disorder featuring a combination of myoclonic jerks and dystonia [ 1 ]. Myoclonus can be severe and disabling, involving mainly...

... mental disorders. Stereotactic neurosurgery developed out of psychosurgery. It was leucotomy for psychiatric disorders and chronic pain that paved the way for stereotactic dorsomedial thalamotomy in these indications and subsequently for stereotactic surgery in epilepsy and movement disorders. Through...

...Rik W.J. Pauwels; D.L. Marinus Oterdoom; Gea Drost; Teus van Laar; J. Marc C. van Dijk Background: Thalamotomy is an endorsed treatment for medication-refractory tremor. It used to be the standard, but nowadays deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become the treatment option of choice. Nevertheless...

... that may be used to perform thalamotomy without the need for a burr hole craniotomy. Here, we report on 2 patients over the age of 90 years who benefited significantly from MRgFUS thalamotomy to relieve their symptoms and improve their quality of life. The procedure was well tolerated and performed safely...

... applications of functional stereotactic neurosurgery were in performing dorsomedial thalamotomies in psychiatric patients; it was only later that the stereotactic technique was applied in patients with chronic pain, movement disorders and epilepsy. Spiegel and Wycis’ first functional stereotactic operations...

...Tony R. Wang; Robert F. Dallapiazza; Shayan Moosa; Diane Huss; Binit B. Shah; W. Jeffrey Elias Background: A recent randomized controlled trial investigating unilateral MRI-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) for essential tremor demonstrated efficacy. The long-term durability of this thalamotomy...

... retrospectively studied the outcomes of 33 patients who were treated with gamma knife thalamotomy (GKT) over a 19-year period. Twelve patients were ≥80 years. A median dose of 140 Gy (range, 130-150 Gy) was delivered to the nucleus ventralis intermedius through a single 4-mm isocenter. We used the Fahn-Tolosa...

... the impact of thalamotomy on hairdresser's dystonia. Methods: Four consecutive patients with hairdresser's task-specific dystonia evaluated at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital between 2008 and 2013 were treated with stereotactic thalamotomy, and were recruited for this case series. Results: The mean...

...Shiro Horisawa; Shinichi Goto; Nobuhiko Takeda; Yuki Takano; Takakazu Kawamata; Takaomi Taira Background/Aims: Although many reports have confirmed the effects of stereotactic thalamotomy for writer's cramp, pallidotomy for writer's cramp is yet to be investigated. Methods: After a 22-year-old...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Focused ultrasound Thalamotomy Magnetic resonance imaging compatibility Deep brain stimulation Movement disorders Thermography A cadaver experiment was designed to most closely simulate the technical issues of transcranial...

... thalamotomy as a salvage treatment option after ineffective DBS. Methods: A retrospective chart analysis of patients who underwent ipsilateral stereotactic thalamotomy after an ineffective ventrointermediate nucleus DBS procedure was undertaken. Patient outcome was based on follow-up visit chart notes...

...Joo Pyung Kim; Won Seok Chang; Sung-Rae Cho; Jin Woo Chang Objective: We compared bilateral globus pallidus internus (GPi) deep brain stimulation (DBS) with bilateral GPi DBS plus ventralis oralis (Vo) thalamotomy to analyze the effect of the combined Vo thalamotomy. Methods: Between March 2003...