Surgical treatment for Parkinson's disease

Fung, Victor S C; Morris, John G L; Pell, Malcolm F

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04694.x

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Surgery shows promise for patients with severe, poorly controlled motor fluctuations

Parkinson's disease afflicts around 78 000 Australians. Mortality is almost twice that of age-matched controls1 and the mean disease duration is only 13 years.2 No treatment has yet been shown to slow disease progression.

1 Department of Neurology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW.
2 Department of Neurosurgery, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW.

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