Bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in a patient with cervical dystonia and essential tremor. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The role of subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) is well established in Parkinson's disease, but experience with STN DBS in other movement disorders is limited. We report on a patient with medically refractory cervical dystonia and essential tremor resulting in dystonic head tremor and action tremor of the hands who obtained complete tremor suppression and near resolution of her cervical dystonia with bilateral STN stimulation. The results in this case demonstrate that STN DBS can dramatically improve dystonia and tremor in nonparkinsonian movement disorders.

publication date

  • March 1, 2005

Research

keywords

  • Deep Brain Stimulation
  • Essential Tremor
  • Subthalamic Nucleus
  • Torticollis

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 18144406442

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/mds.20341

PubMed ID

  • 15580615

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 20

issue

  • 3