(P13) Treatment of the Ventral Intermediate Nucleus for Medically Refractory Tremor: A Cost-Analysis of Stereotactic Radiosurgery Versus Deep Brain Stimulation

The treatment of medically refractory tremor has evolved over the past half-century from intraoperative thalamotomy to deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the thalamic ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM). VIM DBS has proven efficacious for patients with essential tremor (ET), tremor-dominant Parkinson ’s disease (PD), and less common causes of tremor including multiple sclerosis and orthostatic tremor. Within the past 15 years, unilateral radiosurgical VIM thalamotomy has emerged as a comparably efficacious treatment modality, particularly for ET and tremor-dominant PD patients.
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Poster Abstract Source Type: research