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Deep brain stimulation of the internal pallidum did not improve chorea in a patient with neuro-acanthocytosis

✍ Scribed by G. Wihl; J. Volkmann; N. Allert; R. Lehrke; V. Sturm; H.-J. Freund

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 840 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-3185
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1109

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Abstract

We report the failure of bilateral globus pallidus internus deep brain stimulation to improve chorea in a patient with chorea‐acanthocytosis. Prior to this surgery the patient had experienced a striking but short lived amelioration of symptoms with clozapine therapy.

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