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Post-stroke totally recovery of tremor in a patient with Parkinson’s disease

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Pallidotomy remains as a treatment option in Parkinson’s disease (PD) with unilateral disabling dyskinesia and tremor, though deep brain stimulation of GPi and the other targets largely replaced ablative surgeries because of reversibility. Here, we present an illustrative rare case, a 65-year-old man with PD, at whom his unilateral parkinsonian tremor was totally recovered after stroke limited to lentiform nucleus.

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  1. Halil Onder

    Present address: Department of Neurology, Yozgat State Hospital, 66000, Yozgat, Turkey

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  1. Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Halil Onder & Esen Saka

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Video 1. Neurological examination showing the absence of tremor on evaluation at 12th month after stroke (examinations including resting, postural and intention, respectively). In the subsequent part of the video, motor examination showing lack of paralysis is illustrated. Final section of the video demonstrates that tremor also do not occur during walking. (MP4 17676 kb)

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Onder, H., Saka, E. Post-stroke totally recovery of tremor in a patient with Parkinson’s disease. Neurol Sci 38, 1127–1128 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-017-2869-x

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