Concerns about the European Academy's Recommendations and Guidelines Regarding Pallidotomy for Parkinson's Disease.

12 Merello M, Nouzeilles MI, Cammarota A, Betti O, Leiguarda R. 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. Deep brain stimulation plus best medical therapy versus best medical therapy alone for advanced Parkinson's disease (PD SURG trial): a randomised, open-label trial. [[5]] Indeed, it was the solid and robust effect of posteroventral pallidotomy on dopa-induced dyskinesias and dystonia in subjects with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) that paved the way for using this very same brain target in the surgical treatment of non-parkinsonian dystonia, whether by pallidotomy or by pallidal DBS[[20]]. [Extracted from the article]