Hydrocephalic parkinsonism due to Paget's disease of bone: Dramatic improvement following ventriculoperitoneal shunt and temporary levodopa/carbidopa therapy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-242

  Ikeda, K ^a   Kinoshita, M ^a   Aoki, K ^a   Tomatsuri, A ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; PAMIDRONIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030934334     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120217     Document Type: Article

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