Neuropathology of Parkinson’s disease after focused ultrasound thalamotomy

Autor: Shunsuke Koga, Mariam Ishaque, W. Jeffrey Elias, Binit B. Shah, Aya Murakami, Dennis W. Dickson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: npj Parkinson's Disease, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2373-8057
DOI: 10.1038/s41531-022-00319-6
Popis: Abstract Focused ultrasound (FUS) thalamotomy is an emerging treatment for tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease (PD). We report the first postmortem neuropathologic study of FUS thalamotomy in a 68-year-old man with tremor-dominant PD, which was performed seven months before he died. Although the peak voxel temperature at the target was
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