Disappearance of essential tremor after small thalamic hemorrhage

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-42

  Im, Joo Hyuk ^a   Kim, Jong Sung ^a   Lee, Myoung Chong ^a  

^a University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CASE REPORT; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030043533     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-8467(95)00080-1     Document Type: Article

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