title: Stereotactic Gamma Knife radiosurgery for the treatment of dystonia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Whang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004421:Dystonia / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005917:Globus Pallidus / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D016634:Radiosurgery; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000150:complications