Author Archives: thebraincentre

Categories Trigeminal Neuralgia

Quality-of-life outcomes after gamma knife surgery for trigeminal neuralgia

J Neurosurg. 2010;113 Suppl:191–98. DOI: 10.3171/2010.8.GKS10879.
Pan HC, Sheehan J, Huang CF, Sheu ML, Yang DY, Chiu WT.

Objective
Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) is an important part of the neurosurgical armamentarium for treatment of patients with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and is regarded as the first-line treatment in patients with TN who have serious medical comorbidities. In this study, the authors ...
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Treatment of the ventral intermediate nucleus for medically refractory tremor: A cost-analysis of stereotactic radiosurgery versus deep brain stimulation

Radiother Oncol. 2017;125(1):136–9.
McClelland 3rd S, Jaboin JJ.

Introduction
Medically refractory tremor treatment has evolved over the past half-century from intraoperative thalamotomy to deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the thalamic ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM). Within the past 15 years, unilateral radiosurgical VIM thalamotomy has emerged as a ...
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Safety and efficacy of single-fraction gamma knife radiosurgery for benign confined cavernous sinus tumors: our experience and literature review

Neurosurg Rev. 2020;43(1):27–40.
Tripathi M, Batish B, Kumar N, Ahuja CK, Oinam AS, Kaur R, Narayanan R, Gurnaani J, Kaur A.

Gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) has emerged as a suitable primary treatment option for confined cavernous sinus tumors (CSTs) and residual/recurrent benign tumors extending from the surrounding neighborhood. The aim of this review was to further investigate the safety ...
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