Axial myoclonus of propriospinal origin

Brain

Volumn 114A, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 197-214

  Brown, P ^a   Thompson, P D ^a   Rothwell, J C ^a   Day, B L ^a   Marsden, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

ADULT; DEXAMETHASONE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; MYOCLONUS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0025981205     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.brain.a101857     Document Type: Article

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