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Bilateral pallidotomy for Meige syndrome

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Meige syndrome (MS) is usually described as a combination of blepharospasm with oromandibular dystonia. There are a large number of case reports of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus internus (GPI) for MS and only one report of unilateral pallidotomy (PT). We report the first case of staged bilateral PT for treatment of a patient with MS using intraoperative high-frequency stimulation in order to predict and prevent postoperative deficit. There was a significant improvement of the Burk-Fahn-Marsden dystonia rating scale from 26 to 3. There were no adverse postoperative neurological and neuropsychological events.

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  1. Functional Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital “Saint Ivan Rilski”, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Krasimir Minkin, Kaloyan Gabrovski, Petia Dimova & Rossitsa Tanova

  2. Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital “Saint Ivan Rilski”, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Marin Penkov, Yuri Todorov & Kiril Romansky

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In this era of DBS hysteria, there are people who still believe in the benefit of non-expensive and well-performed stereotactic lesional procedures, and provide solid documentation about its benefit. This paper is one of them.

Marwan Hariz

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Postoperative video 3 days after left-sided PT (MOV 45170 kb)

Postoperative video 24 months after bilateral PT (MOV 43205 kb)

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Minkin, K., Gabrovski, K., Dimova, P. et al. Bilateral pallidotomy for Meige syndrome. Acta Neurochir 159, 1359–1363 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-017-3178-0

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