Comparison of 1-year follow-up evaluations of patients with indication for pallidotomy who did not undergo surgery versus patients with Parkinson's disease who did undergo pallidotomy: A case control study

Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 461-468

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

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrera   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Microrecording; Pallidotomy; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSKINESIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PALLIDOTOMY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RIGIDITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR;

EID: 0033019857     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199903000-00011     Document Type: Article

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