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Nucleus accumbens stereotactic surgery: Achieving accuracy through area M
Ioannis N Mavridis, Medical office of the Command of the Hellenic Navy General Staff (Naval Hospital of Athens), 15561 Athens, Greece
Author contributions: Mavridis IN solely contributed to this paper.
Correspondence to: Ioannis N Mavridis, MD, PhD, Medical office of the Command of the Hellenic Navy General Staff (Naval Hospital of Athens), Mesogion Av. 229, Cholargos, 15561 Athens, Greece. pap-van@otenet.gr
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Received: January 28, 2013
Revised: April 9, 2013
Accepted: April 13, 2013
Published online: June 28, 2013
Processing time: 126 Days and 5.5 Hours
Revised: April 9, 2013
Accepted: April 13, 2013
Published online: June 28, 2013
Processing time: 126 Days and 5.5 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: Nucleus accumbens (NA), a major pleasure center of the human brain, is a limbic-motor interface involved in several neurological and psychiatric disorders. It is also a deep brain stimulation target for selected patients. Purpose of this paper is to comment on the article entitled “Stereotactic anatomy of the human nucleus accumbens: from applied mathematics to microsurgical accuracy” which was recently published in “Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy”. Its most important finding was standard area M (Mavridis’ area), which is the most reliable stereotactically standard area of the human NA, regardless of side or gender, useful for highly accurate stereotactic NA targeting.