Localized injections of botulinum toxin for the treatment of focal dystonia and hemifacial spasm

Movement Disorders

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 237-254

  Brin, Mitchell F ^a   Fahn, Stanley ^a   Moskowitz, Carol ^a   Friedman, Andrzej ^a   Shale, Heidi M ^a   Greene, Paul E ^a   Blitzer, Andrew ^a   List, Theodore ^a   Lange, Dale ^a   Lovelace, Robert E ^a   McMahon, Don ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Presbyterian Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blepharospasm; Botulinum toxin; Focal dystonias; Hemifacial spasm; Spastic dysphonia; Torticollis

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; CASE REPORT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DYSTONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TORTICOLLIS;

ADULT; AGED; BLEPHAROSPASM; BOTULINUM TOXINS; CASE REPORT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DYSTONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SPASM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 0023529872     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870020402     Document Type: Article

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