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Fifty-three patients underwent chemopallidectomy as treatment for dystonias believed to originate in the basal ganglions. In 43 the symptoms were those of Parkinsonism. The procedure consisted in passing a catheter through an incision and bur hole just superior to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone. The catheter was timed directly at the roof of the third ventricle and advanced until its tip would deliver injected materials (ethylcellulose and ethyl alcohol) 1.5 cm. lateral to the wall of the third ventricle. Two components of Parkinsonism were considerably reduced by the operation, namely the plastic rigidity and the pill-rolling tremor. But the patients could be easily identified as having Parkinsonism after operation, and none of them reestablished a wholly normal synergistic motor pattern. Patients with congenital athetosis and spasmodic torticollis were not helped, but good results were obtained in two with dystonia musculorum deformans and three with acquired choreiform movements.
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Oct 11, 1958
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