Gabapentin for familial paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis

Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1441-1442

  Chudnow, Robert S ^a   Mimbela, Rafael A ^a   Owen, David B ^a   Roach, E Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GABAPENTIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOREOATHETOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030680108     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.49.5.1441     Document Type: Article

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