Table 2.
Ref | Author | Year | Patients (n) | Surgical strategy and target | Tremor: improvement | Dystonia: improvement | Notes or clinical details |
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[29] | Pauls | 2014 | 7 | Subthalamic DBS (BL) | 57% | 70% |
Cervical dystonia with head dystonic tremor A trial thalamic vs subthalamic leads was performed |
[16] | Buhmann | 2013 | 2 | Ventral thalamic base and/or PSA DBS (BL) | 64.60% | 73.80% | Cervical dystonia with head dystonic tremor |
[30] | Blomstedt | 2009 | 2 | PSA DBS (UL) | 100% | Not reported | Hand dystonic tremor (sporadic and acquired, post-traumatic, respectively) |
[33] | Kitagawa | 2000 | 1 | Subthalamic area DBS (UL) | Remarkably reduced | Reduced | Upper Limb idiopathic dystonic tremor |
[32] | Jeong | 2009 | 1 | Subthalamic area DBS (BL) | 64.9% | 80.50% | Acquired (lesional) dystonia and tremor |
[31] | Chou | 2005 | 1 | STN DBS (BL) | suppressed | very marked reduction | Limbs and cervical dystonic tremor in sporadic dystonia |
[34] | Plaha | 2008 | 1 | cZi DBS (BL) | 70.50% | 65% | Limbs dystonic tremor in sporadic dystonia |
BL bilateral, cZi caudal zona incerta, DBS deep brain stimulation, STN subthalamic nucleus, PSA posterior subthalamic area, UL unilateral