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Radiosurgical thalamotomy for essential tremor: state of the art, current challenges and future directions.

Christian Iorio-MorinDavid MathieuAndrea FranziniMojgan HodaieSamuelle-Arianne VilleneuveAndréanne HamelAndres M Lozano
Published in: Expert review of neurotherapeutics (2024)
SRS thalamotomy improves tremor in > 80% patients. The efficacy appears comparable to other modalities, including DBS, RF and MRgFUS. Side effects result mostly from idiosyncratic hyper-responses to radiation, which occur in up to 10% of treatments, are usually self-resolving, and are symptomatic in < 4% of patients. Future research should focus on accumulating more data on bilateral treatments, collecting long-term outcomes, refining targeting, and improving lesion consistency.
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