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To the Editor: In their reports of the transplantation of fetal tissue in advanced Parkinson's disease (Nov. 26, 1992, issue), Spencer et al.¹ and Freed et al.² did not compare their results with those for adrenal transplantation. A detailed comparison cannot be made without a randomized, prospective trial, but patients receiving fetal transplants and those in the United Parkinson Foundation Registry on adrenal medullary transplantation³ had similar levels of function at base line, and both groups were evaluated with the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS).

Adrenal transplantation was associated with more frequent and severe morbidity and longer hospital stays . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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