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Bilateral thalamic deep brain stimulation: midline tremor control
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- Published on: 13 April 2016
- Published on: 13 April 2016Laterality of motor control in deep brain stimulationShow More
Dear Editor,
The article by Putzke and colleagues [1] on bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) for ameliorating essential tremor contains several laterality indexed aspects of clinical interest (not mentioned by the authors):
They stimulated the ventral intermediate nucleus of thalamus (Vim) on the left side in 20 of 22 patients with essential tremor, assumed to have been right handers at the rate of...
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