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Editorial
. 2018 Oct 30:9:219.
doi: 10.4103/sni.sni_271_18. eCollection 2018.

After 19 years of deep brain stimulation in Tourette's syndrome: From multiple targets to one single target?

Domenico Servello  1 , Christian Saleh  1 , Alberto R Bona  1 , Edvin Zekaj  1 , Mauro Porta  1
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Editorial

After 19 years of deep brain stimulation in Tourette's syndrome: From multiple targets to one single target?

Domenico Servello et al. Surg Neurol Int. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Postoperative brain MRI. (a) DBS leads at the ventro-oralis-internus centromedian parafascicular thalamus (Voi-CM/Pf). (b) DBS leads at the antero-medial globus pallidus internus (a-GPi)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Procedure targeting evolution from 2004 to 2017. The ventro-oralis-internus centromedian parafascicular thalamus (Voi-CM/Pf) depicted in blue, the nucleus accumbens/anterior limb of the internal capsule (NAc/ALIC) depicted in green, the bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BNST) depicted in purple, and the antero-medial globus pallidus internus (a-GPi) depicted in red
Figure 3
Figure 3
Comparison of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) and the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) score changes after DBS at the ventro-oralis-internus centromedian parafascicular thalamus (Voi-CM/Pf) and at the antero-medial globus pallidus internus (a-GPi)
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