Successful treatment of Juvenile parkinsonism with bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation in a 14-year-old patient with parkin gene mutation

Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2016 Mar:24:137-8. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2016.01.018. Epub 2016 Jan 23.

¹ Department of Neurology, Gumussuyu Military Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: gencerg@gmail.com.
² Department of Neurology, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁷ Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Keywords: Deep brain stimulation; Juvenile parkinsonism; Parkin gene.

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