Thalamotomy

The thalamotomy is a stereotactic brain surgery, which has completely replaced the lobotomy. Uninfluenceable pain be treated by coagulation of nuclei of the thalamus otherwise. Indications include pain in the arms, neck or face, as well as central pain arising in the thalamus itself. Phantom pain after amputation, which sometimes also have a psychogenic cause, are often required to correct the spinal cord, but can in certain cases in the thalamus influence. At a stop connections to the dorsomedial frontal cortex is not actually a pain surgery, but a psycho- surgery. It aims thereby, spare the patient excruciating and can not be influenced pharmacologically pain. This form of thalamotomy is performed rarely and only as a last resort.

• Therapeutic procedures in neurosurgery
• Operative treatment procedures