Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
School of Medicine |
Department |
Neurosurgery |
Creator |
Kestle, John R. W. |
Other Author |
Tasker, R. R.; DeCarvalho, G. C.; Li, C. S. |
Title |
Does thalamotomy alter the course of Parkinson's disease? |
Date |
1996 |
Description |
Irving Cooper (3) observed that unilateral Parkinson's disease seemed less likely to progress to the other side of the body after thalamotomy that abolished contralateral tremor and rigidity, an effect that he felt might be the result of either the surgery itself or the slow progression of that particular patient's disease. In 1968, Scott et al. (16) reviewed 72 of Cooper's patients who had undergone thalamotomy for unilateral tremor and rigidity before 1963 and found that the disease had progressed to the opposite side in 33% of both the 39 with incomplete and the 33 with complete postoperative relief of contralateral tremor and rigidity. Matsumoto et al. (10) resurrected the notion that surgery might influence the progress of Parkinson's disease, reporting that 48.4% of 64 patients undergoing unilateral, and 63.6% of 22 undergoing bilateral thalamotomy between 1964 and 1969 did not progress after completion of surgery up to the time of their review in 1981, and Miyamoto et al. (11) reached similar conclusions. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
Wolters Kluwer (LWW) |
First Page |
563 |
Last Page |
583 |
Subject LCSH |
Thalamotomy; Parkinson's disease |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Tasker, R. R., DeCarvalho, G. C., Li, C. S., & Kestle, J. R. (1996). Does thalamotomy alter the course of Parkinsons disease? Advances in Neurology, 69, 563-83. |
Rights Management |
© Wolters Kluwer (LWW) http://lww.com |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
1,224,273 bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,13146 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6tq6jx6 |
Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
704847 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tq6jx6 |