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A Study of One Hundred Cases of Parkinsonism with Ages Over Sixty

TUNG HUI LIN, M.D.; IRVING S. COOPER, M.D.

AMA Arch Neurol. 1960;2(2):188-193.

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It is the purpose of this paper to present clinical and statistical data on the effects of both chemopallidectomy and chemothalamectomy^1-5 as carried out in a group of patients 60 years of age and over in order to elucidate the problems involving the indication for operation, as well as the outcome of the surgical procedures.

Design

From a total of 490 patients with Parkinsonism who underwent chemopallidectomy or chemothalamectomy between July, 1956, and December, 1958, we selected as subjects 100 consecutive cases 60 years of age or older. This represents 20.4% of the group undergoing surgery during that period. The data concerning preoperative findings, operations, and immediate postoperative results were accumulated from the available data of the hospital records. For the long-range follow-up study, questionnaires were prepared and sent to all the patients under consideration. The items of the questionnaires were based on the Parkinsonian stigmata and general . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Neurosurgical Department of St. Barnabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases, and the Division of Neuromuscular Diseases, New York University Post-Graduate Medical School.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Neuromuscular Diseases New York University Post-Graduate School of Medicine. Assistant Neurosurgeon, St. Barnabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases (Dr. Lin). Professor of Research Surgery, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center; Director, Division of Neuromuscular Disorders, New York University Post-Graduate School of Medicine; Director, Department of Neurosurgery, St. Barnabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases (Dr. Cooper).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept. 2, 1959.

Assisted by grants from Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation, the Allen P. and Josephine B. Green Foundation, and from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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