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29. Surgical considerations in movement disorders: deep brain stimulation, ablation and transplantation.

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Steiger, H. -J., Sakas, Damianos E., Simpson, Brian A., Schuurman, P. R., and Bosch, D. A.

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Surgical therapy for movement disorders has been practiced since the early 20th century, mostly for Parkinson's disease. At its onset, large destructive procedures like open resection of cortex, parts of the basal ganglia or its fibre connections produced variable, ill-documented results. With the introduction of the stereotactic operating technique in the second half of the century, ablative surgery became more refined, and more selective interventions became possible to alleviate the suffering of those patients for whom no other treatment modalities were yet available. However, the introduction of levodopa-based pharmacological therapy pushed surgical therapy almost completely to the background. In the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in surgery for movement disorders, due to both limitations of long-term pharmacological therapy and the advent of the treatment modality of deep brain stimulation. The subject has now grown into a large field of clinical and scientific interest. Parkinson's disease is the most widespread surgical indication, but in other movement disorders considerable improvement can be achieved by surgery as well, most notably in dystonia. A short review of the surgical therapy for these disorders is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2007
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