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Taking as starging point three patients who unsuccessfully underwent both medical treatment and different neurosurgical interventions, the Authors discuss the problem of the dystonia musculorum deformans nosographic arrangement and its present therapeutical possibilities. They believe that the dystonia musculorum deformans must be considered, rather than as a syndrome, as a real disease, to be distinguished in particular from the various infantile dystonic syndromes and from spasmodic torticollis. In fact in these last morbid forms, at least from a neurosurgical standpoint, the therapeutical possiblities are not so uncertain as those of the dystonia musculorum deformans.

The Authors report the experience about 100 cases of patients affected by chronical pain syndromes where the medical treatment has been uneffective. After a follow-up of 2 years about, only in 14% of the patients treated by S.E.N.T., the benefit has been clear and prolonged.