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1: Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 1995;64 Suppl 1:222-7.Links

Stereotactic Gamma Knife radiosurgery for the treatment of dystonia.

Kwon Y, Whang CJ.

Department of Neurological Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.

A case of dystonia treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery is reported. A 37-year-old female patient had a history of tuberculous meningitis at the age of 10 and subsequently developed a left hemidystonia. MRI showed an old infarction in the right caudate nucleus, globus pallidus and putamen. Stereotactic Gamma Knife radiosurgery was employed to make a lesion in the right posteroventral globus pallidus. Postoperatively, the patient's condition improved. However, homonymous hemianopsia developed postoperatively.

PMID: 8584831 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]