Confirmation of the antidyskinetic effect of posteroventral pallidotomy by means of an intraoperative apomorphine test

Movement Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 533-535

  Merello, Marcelo ^a,b   Cammarota, Angel ^a   Nouzeilles, Maria I ^a   Betti, Osvaldo ^a   Leiguarda, Ramón ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrera   (Argentina)

^b FLENI   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Apomorphine; Dyskinesia; Pallidotomy

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; DYSKINESIA; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; MALE; PALLIDOTOMY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY;

AGED; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; APOMORPHINE; DYSKINESIA, DRUG-INDUCED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031947945     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870130325     Document Type: Article

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