Abstract
180 cases of cerebral palsy with spasticity have been surgically treated since 1971. Different surgical procedures were employed: Cryopulvinarectomy (22 cases), bilateral cryodentatolysis (48 cases), associated cryopulvinarectomy and bilateral cryodentatolysis (10 cases), Foerster’s posterior rhizotomy (14 cases), selective posterior rhizotomy (24 cases), and functional posterior rhizotomy (62 cases).
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Fasano, V.A. et al. (1977). New Aspects in the Surgical Treatment of Cerebral Palsy. In: Gillingham, F.J., Hitchcock, E.R. (eds) Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 2. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 24. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8482-0_8
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