hello sibs after admitting my addiction to that incredible resource PubMed and after discussing pallidotomy etc with fatta i did some serious digging [!] and put together a listing of all the journal-published, peer-reviewed articles on PD surgical options that i could find for 1997 frankly, i am amazed i knew there was a lot of work going on out there the past few years but had no idea of the scope [and i'm not convinced that i have caught all of them!] i can't think of a better outlook for us especially in view of the passage of the udall bill into law i have copies of these abstracts available for posting to the list in order to enter them into our own database for later searching [in fact, some of them have already been posted] but if you want to look at them at the PubMed website just use the PMID number as the search criterion the PMID number is the unique identifier used by PubMed for searching the later numbers e.g. 44/0, is my own code showing the number of patients involved in the study [if any], followed by the number of years post-op follow-up [if any] PMID: 9120628: Tremor control after pallidotomy 44/0 USA 1997 PMID: 9159728: Thalamic stimulation and tremor 29/0 USA 1997 PMID: 9171171: Fetal cell implants improvement 10/5 Spain 1997 PMID: 9184116: PC12 Cell implants/sinemet rat study USA 1997 PMID: 9194437: Thalamic stimulation technique 5/0 France 1997 PMID: 9204113: Pallidotomy technique USA 1997 PMID: 9204114: Gamma knife pallidotomy 1/9 USA 1997 PMID: 9219959: Fetal cell implants rat study USA 1997 PMID: 9225690: Fetal cell implants improvement 6/6 UK 1997 PMID: 9267968: Pallidotomy cognitive sequelae 14/0 USA 1997 PMID: 9267978: Pallidotomy l-dopa unresponsive 1/0 PD USA 1997 PMID: 9270065: Fetal cell implants improvement 13/0 USA 1997 PMID: 9278624: Pallidotomy reverses impairment 6/0 UK 1997 PMID: 9285599: Pallidotomy post-op MRI analysis 36/0 USA 1997 PMID: 9295177: Postural instability/serotonin 20/0 USA 1997 PMID: 9295483: Surgical treatments for PD and ET 1997 PMID: 9304611: Pallidotomy in advanced PD 3/1 Netherlands 1997 PMID: 9307249: Thalamic Stimulation and tremor 53/1 USA 1997 PMID: 9312680: Neurosurgery in PD Luxembourg 1997 PMID: 9322838: Pallidal stimulation 7/2 France 1997 PMID: 9331903: Neural transplantation hope Sweden 200/6 1997 PMID: 9339692: Pallidotomy younger/older PWP 20/0 USA 1997 PMID: 9339693: Pallidal stimulation and followup 9/0 USA 1997 PMID: 9339694: Indicators of pallidotomy outcome USA 1997 PMID: 9347978: Pallidal stim. vs pallidotomy Germany 1997 wow! your syber sis in archy-ology janet janet [log in to unmask]