file.newsgroup.med.58122 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: Striato Nigral Degeneration
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] ((Ken Todd)) writes:
>I would like any information available on this rare disease. I understand
>that an operation referred to as POLLIDOTOMY may be in order. Does anyone
>know of a physician that performs this procedure. All responses will be
>appreciated. Please respond via email to [email protected]
It isn't that rare, actually. Many cases that are called Parkinson's
Disease turn out on autopsy to be SND. It should be suspected in any
case of Parkinsonism without tremor and which does not respond to
L-dopa therapy. I don't believe pallidotomy will do much for SND.
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