[Surgical therapy of spasmodic torticollis. Selective peripheral denervation].
The authors report on their experience with 19 patients treated with a new operative procedure for spasmodic torticollis--microneurosurgical selective denervation of the hyperactive muscles. In comparison with earlier surgical approaches, the procedure, described by the Canadian neurosurgeon Claude Bertrand, is associated with a high success rate and an absence of the sequelae not infrequently seen with other procedures (stereotactic thalamotomy, intradural divisioning of the anterior roots C1-C3, etc.). The procedure is thus indicated whenever spasmodic torticollis still persists two years after onset, despite conservative therapy.
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Neurochirurgische Klinik, Universität Ulm.
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D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods; D009121:Muscle Denervation / Q000379:methods*; D013035:Spasm / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D014103:Torticollis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*
Operative Therapie des Torticollis spasmodicus. Die selektive periphere Denervierung.