Short and long term outcome of bilateral pallidal stimulation in chorea-acanthocytosis.

Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) is a neuroacanthocytosis syndrome presenting with severe movement disorders poorly responsive to drug therapy. Case reports suggest that bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventro-postero-lateral internal globus pallidus (GPi) may benefit these patients. To exp...

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Main Authors: Marie Miquel, Umberto Spampinato, Chrystelle Latxague, Iciar Aviles-Olmos, Benedikt Bader, Kelly Bertram, Kailash Bhatia, Pierre Burbaud, Lothar Burghaus, Jin Whan Cho, Emmanuel Cuny, Adrian Danek, Thomas Foltynie, Pedro J Garcia Ruiz, Santiago Giménez-Roldán, Dominique Guehl, Jorge Guridi, Marwan Hariz, Paul Jarman, Zinovia Maria Kefalopoulou, Patricia Limousin, Nir Lipsman, Andres M Lozano, Elena Moro, Dhita Ngy, Maria Cruz Rodriguez-Oroz, Huifang Shang, Hyeeun Shin, Ruth H Walker, Fusako Yokochi, Ludvic Zrinzo, François Tison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3818425?pdf=render