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Irving S. Cooper and the early surgical management of movement disorders. Video history
M Hornyak1, R L Rovit, A S Simon
1Department of Neurosurgery, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA.
Abstract:
Irving S. Cooper was a pioneer in the field of functional neurosurgery. During his very productive and controversial career, he proposed the surgical treatment of Parkinson disease (PD) by ligating the anterior choroidal artery to control tremor and rigidity. Subsequently, he developed seminal techniques for chemopallidectomy and cryothalamectomy for PD. He also attempted to use electrical stimulation of the cerebellum or the thalamus to treat spasticity. Cooper continued his work on brain stimulation until his death in 1985. He made video recordings of nearly all of his patients during his tenure (1977-1985) at New York Medical College. Cooper's clinical video recordings were reviewed, and selected footage was compiled into a video history of Cooper's surgical management of various movement disorders. Included are pre-, post-, and some intraoperative recordings that Cooper made to document his treatment of patients with PD, tremor, Wilson disease, cerebral palsy, chorea, dystonia musculorum deformans, and some rarer entities.
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