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01-02-2020 | Edema | Letter to the Editor
Cerebral peri-lead edema following deep brain stimulation surgery
Authors:
Seyed Amir Hassan Habibi, Gholamali Shahidi, Mansour Parvaresh, Alfonso Fasano, Maryam Pouranian, Narges Yazdi, Farhad Modara, Maryam Mehdizadeh, Ghorban Taghizadeh, Mohammad Rohani
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Neurological Sciences
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Issue 2/2020
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Excerpt
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a frequently performed surgery in patients with movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease (PD). Despite the significant benefits of this therapeutic modality, it is not free of surgical complications. These can be divided into operation- and device-related complications [
1]. …