[Functional stereotactic radiosurgery: Indications and perspectives]

Abstract

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a non-invasive technique that enables to create brain focal lesions with a high precision and localization. Thus, functional brain disorders can be treated by SRS in case of pharmacoresistance or inoperability. To date, treatment of trigeminal neuralgia is the most described and known indication. Other indications will be developed in the future like movement disorders, refractory epilepsy, obsessive compulsive disorder and severe depression. We present here a review of actual and future indications of functional brain SRS with their level of evidence. All these SRS treatments have to be strictly conducted by trained teams with an excellent collaboration between radiation physicists, medical physicists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, psychiatrists and probably neuroradiologists.

Keywords: Epilepsy; Névralgie du trijumeau; Radiochirurgie; Stereotactic Radiosurgery; Stéréotaxie; Tremblement; Tremor; Trigeminal Neuralgia; Épilepsie.