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----- Original Message ----- From: Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:51 PM Subject: Re: surgery > > >From my personal research, and from speaking with dozens of people > with Parkinson's who have had pallidotmies, I've found that MOST > benefit enough from the surgery to consider it better to have had > the surgery than to not. I agree at that time pallidotomy was a very good option, but at times go on PD worsens, especially the non-stimulated side gets more affected and gait problems will get worse. So a bilateral STN is the next step, if necesarry and if there is no cure yet. Chris