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Could gamma knife at the swedish radiosurgery successfully treat essential tremor?
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Not standard: The more standard non-medical treatment would be a deep brain stimulator. Determining which area to irradiate by gamma knife would be a little problematic. For DBS the surgeon and neurologist try to map out the most effective place to "turn off" with the stimulator. Couldn't do that with gamma knife.
Answered 7/21/2014
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