A Prevalence Survey of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders in the People's Republic of China

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1985, Pages 655-657

  Li, Shi Chuo ^a   Schoenberg, Bruce S ^a   Wang, Chung Cheng ^a   Cheng, Xue Ming ^a   Rui, De Yuan ^b   Bolis, C L ^d   Schoenberg, Devera G ^c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSON TREMOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASMODIC TORTICOLLIS;

AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 0021878149     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1985.04060070045013     Document Type: Article

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