title: Staged bilateral thalamic electrode implantation utilizing frameless stereotactic guidance.
abstract: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for medically intractable Parkinson's disease (PD) is well established, but carries the inconveniences of frame-based neurosurgery. Previous reports have demonstrated that ventricular shunt placement and some functional procedures can be accurately performed using frameless stereotaxy. We present a report indicating that staged deep brain electrode placement can be accurate and efficacious using a frameless skull-mounted guide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
authors.forename: Shearwood
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McClelland
authors.forename: Patrick B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Senatus
authors.forename: Blair
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: Guy M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: McKhann
authors.forename: Robert R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Goodman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D046690:Deep Brain Stimulation / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D004566:Electrodes; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D038361:Neuronavigation / Q000379:methods*; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000601:surgery; D013788:Thalamus / Q000601:surgery*