Prevalence of focal dystonias in the western area of Tottori Prefecture in Japan

Movement Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 440-443

  Nakashima, Kenji ^a   Kusumi, Masayoshi ^a   Inoue, Yuichi ^b   Takahashi, Kazuro ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blepharospasm; Epidemiology; Meige's syndrome; Oromandibular dystonia; Spasmodic torticollis; Writer's cramp

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSTONIA; FACE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPASMODIC TORTICOLLIS; TORSION DYSTONIA; WRITING;

ADULT; AGED; BLEPHAROSPASM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSTONIA MUSCULORUM DEFORMANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MEIGE SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLE CRAMP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 0029012124     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870100406     Document Type: Article

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