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- Title
Selective dorsal rhizotomies in the treatment of spasticity related to cerebral palsy.
- Authors
Farmer, Jean-Pierre; Sabbagh, Abdulrahman J
- Abstract
Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is a surgical technique developed over the past decades to manage patients diagnosed with cerebral palsy suffering from spastic diplegia. It involves selectively lesioning sensory rootlets in an effort to maintain a balance between elimination of spasticity and preservation of function. Several recent long-term outcome studies have been published. In addition, shorter follow-up randomized controlled studies have compared the outcome of patients having undergone physiotherapy alone with those that received physiotherapy after selective dorsal rhizotomy.
- Publication
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2007, Vol 23, Issue 9, p991
- ISSN
0256-7040
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00381-007-0398-2