Posteroventral medial pallidotomy in advanced Parkinson's disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1036-1042

  Lang, Anthony E ^a,c   Lozano, Andres M ^a   Montgomery, Erwin ^b   Duff, Jan ^a   Tasker, Ronald ^a   Hutchinson, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSKINESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030922767     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199710093371503     Document Type: Article

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