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Surgical treatment options in Parkinson's disease
W C Koller1, S Wilkinson, R Pahwa
1Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160-7314, USA.
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America
|April 29, 1998
Abstract:
Surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease has become an important mode of therapy for advanced disease. Both ablative lesions and, more recently, deep brain stimulation have been employed. Various brain areas, including the thalamus, globus pallidus, and subthalamus, have been target sites.