Review Article
MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound in Parkinson’s Disease: A Review
Table 1
Characteristics of Parkinson’s disease patients that underwent MRgFUS treatment.
| Authors & year | Target | Patients, | Age, y (range) | Sex, m | Tremor dominant | Levodopa treatment | Disease duration, y (range) |
| Magara et al. 2014 | Pallidothalamic tract | 13 | 64.5 (37–82) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9.7 (3–27) | Schlesinger et al. 2015 | Thalamotomy | 7 | 59 (46–74) | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5.4 (2.5–10) | Na et al. 2015 | Pallidotomy | 1 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | Zaaroor et al. 2017 | Thalamotomy | | 62.8 (46–75) | 11 | 12 | 5 | 7.1 (2–16) |
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the 12 patients in Zaaroor et al., 7 are the same patients as in Schlesinger et al.
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