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Pre-surgical Evaluation Showed a Postural, Kinetic, and Intention Tremor in Both Hands, Left Greater than Right. With the hands outstretched there was mild dystonic posturing of the digits.. Six-month Post-surgical Evaluation, with Significant Improvement in the Left Hand Tremor and Dystonia. Right ventralis intermedius targeting coordinates 14 mm lateral and 5.5 mm anterior from the posterior commissure (PC) with the z-axis at the anterior commissure-posterior commissure (ACPC) plane. Programming settings: contacts 9+, 10-, 11+; 3.7 V; 120 us; 180 Hz.
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Tremor and dystonic posturing in the left arm both improved with unilateral Vim DBS (Video 2, Figure 1).
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