Stereotactic ablative surgery does not just mean "adding another lesion"

Marwan Hariz^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Simon Sainsbury Chair of Functional Neurosurgery, Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, UCL - Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK.
² Adjunct Professor of Stereotactic Surgery, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

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Marwan Hariz. Mov Disord. 2017 Jul.

. 2017 Jul;32(7):1112-1113.

doi: 10.1002/mds.27064. Epub 2017 Jun 14.

Marwan Hariz^{1

2}

¹ Simon Sainsbury Chair of Functional Neurosurgery, Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, UCL - Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK.
² Adjunct Professor of Stereotactic Surgery, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

No abstract available

Keywords: Parkinson's disease; pallidotomy; subthalamotomy; thalamotomy.

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To lesion or not to lesion: That was the question (Reply to "stereotactic ablative surgery does not just mean 'adding another lesion'").
Obeso JA, Martinez-Fernandez R, Del Álamo M, Krack P. Obeso JA, et al. Mov Disord. 2017 Jul;32(7):1113-1114. doi: 10.1002/mds.27066. Epub 2017 Jun 14. Mov Disord. 2017. PMID: 28612948 No abstract available.

Current applications and limitations of surgical treatments for movement disorders.
Krack P, Martinez-Fernandez R, Del Alamo M, Obeso JA. Krack P, et al. Mov Disord. 2017 Jan;32(1):36-52. doi: 10.1002/mds.26890. Mov Disord. 2017. PMID: 28124435 Review.