Kulisevsky J, Berthier M L, Avila A
Department of Neurology, Sant Pau Hospital, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Mov Disord. 1995 May;10(3):345-8. doi: 10.1002/mds.870100320.
We report the case of a 69-year-old man with severe Tourette's syndrome (TS) who underwent a bilateral prefrontal leucotomy at the age of 29 years to alleviate coprolalia, copropraxia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. No improvement was observed during the 5 years after the leucotomy. Tics and associated behavioral abnormalities disappeared thereafter, to recur at age 67. Long-term follow-up of single cases can help to estimate the role of neurosurgery in the treatment of TS.
