The Future of Treatment for Advanced Parkinson Disease
17 The Future of Treatment for Advanced Parkinson Disease Shivanand P. Lad, Eleonora M. Lad, Roy A. E. Bakay, and Jeffrey H. Kordower This chapter provides an overview of our…
Anesthesia for Movement Disorder Surgery
6 Anesthesia for Movement Disorder Surgery Robert E. Gross, Klaus Mewes, and Ghaleb Ghani Surgical treatment of Parkinson disease (PD) and other movement disorders has been performed with local anesthesia…
Stereotactic Surgery without Microelectrode Recording
8 Stereotactic Surgery without Microelectrode Recording Marwan I. Hariz and Nathalie Vayssiere It may seem controversial to perform a functional stereotactic procedure, whether an ablation or a deep brain stimulation…
Rationale for Movement Disorder Surgery
2 Rationale for Movement Disorder Surgery Cameron C. McIntyre, Christopher R. Butson, Benjamin L. Walter, and Jerrold L. Vitek Surgical interventions for movement disorders have been practiced for decades, beginning…
Preparation for Movement Disorder Surgery
5 Preparation for Surgery Ron L. Alterman and Michele Tagliati The elective nature of movement disorder surgery demands strict patient selection criteria and optimal surgical technique to ensure patient safety….
Efficacy and Complications of Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders
15 Efficacy and Complications of Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders Erich O. Richter, Clement Hamani, and Andres M. Lozano Chronic electrical stimulation has now become a mainstay of treatment…
History of Surgery for Movement Disorders
1 History of Surgery for Movement Disorders Philip L. Gildenberg The history of surgery for movement disorders can be divided into five stages: the prestereotactic era (1890–1954), the early stereotactic…
Selection of Centers, Disorders, and Patients for Movement Disorder Surgery
4 Selection of Centers, Diseases, and Patients for Movement Disorder Surgery Leo Verhagen Metman Surgery for movement disorders has gained momentum over the last decade, catalyzed by the advent of…
Multiple Lucent Skull Lesions
Multiple Lucent Skull Lesions Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Skull Normal Variants Venous Lakes Emissary Veins, Transcranial Arachnoid Granulations Prominent Convolutional Markings Parietal Foramina Treatment-Related Burr Holes Surgical…
Thin Skull, Localized
Thin Skull, Localized Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Skull Normal Variants Parietal Thinning Squamous Temporal, Occipital Bones Arachnoid Cyst Mega Cisterna Magna Less Common Slow Growing Neoplasm Oligodendroglioma…
