Dopa-responsive childhood hystonia: a forme fruste with writer's cramp, triggered by exercise

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-53

  Deonna, Thierry ^a   Roulet, Eliane ^a   Ghika, Joseph ^a   Zesiger, Pascal ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSTONIA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; MUSCLE CRAMP; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WALKING;

EID: 0031035675     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1997.tb08204.x     Document Type: Article

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