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Between 1964 and 1971, 30 patients with multiple sclerosis were referred to our neurosurgical department for the treatment of intention tremor, spasticity and intractable pain. Twenty-six patients underwent unilateral thalamotomy, 5 had longitudinal myelotomy of Bischof (Bischof, 1951; Laitinen and Singounas, 1971) and one had spinal commissurotomy. Two patients had both thalamotomy and longitudinal myelotomy.
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Laitinen, L., Arsalo, A., Hänninen, A. (1974). Combination of Thalamotomy and Longitudinal Myelotomy in the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis. In: Gillingham, F.J., Hitchcock, E.R., Turner, J.W. (eds) Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Acta Neurochirurgica, vol 21. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8355-7_12
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