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The terrible disability inflicted by primary and secondary dystonia inspired surgical intervention in attempts to modify the associated movement disorders that strike previously normal patients out of the blue in the case of primary dystonia, or that are superimposed on a pre-existing neurological deficit in the case of secondary dystonia.
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Tasker, R.R. (2003). Thalamotomy for Dystonia. In: Tarsy, D., Vitek, J.L., Lozano, A.M. (eds) Surgical Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-312-5_17
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