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NEUROLOGY 1997;49:707-710
© 1997 American Academy of Neurology

Posteroventral pallidotomy in a patient with parkinsonism caused by hypoxic encephalopathy

S. Goto, MD, PhD, N. Kunitoku, MD, N. Soyama, MD, K. Yamada, MD, A. Okamura, MD, M. Yoshikawa, MD, Y. Hirata, MD, PhD, E. Uyama, MD, PhD and Y. Ushio, MD, PhD

From the Department of Neurosurgery (Drs. Goto, Kunitoku, Yamada, Okamura, Yoshikawa, and Ushio) and the Department of Neurology (Dr. Uyama),

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Satoshi Goto, Department of Neurosurgery, Kumamoto University Medical School, Kumamoto 860, Japan.

We report a patient with a hypokinetic-rigid form of parkinsonism caused by hypoxic encephalopathy, in whom parkinsonian symptoms were markedly alleviated by staged bilateral posteroventral pallidotomy.

Kumamoto University Medical School, Kumamoto, Japan; the Department of Neurosurgery (Dr. Soyama), Kyushu Memorial Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan; and the Department of Neurosurgery (Dr. Hirata), Kumamoto Takumadai Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.

Received November 26, 1996. Accepted in final form March 12, 1997.




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