Familial cortical tremor with epilepsy

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 83-87

  Okuma, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Shimo, Yasushi ^a   Hatori, Kozo ^a   Hattori, Tatsuya ^a   Tanaka, Shigeki ^a   Mizuno, Yoshikuni ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY URAYASU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical myoclonus; Cortical tremor; Myoclonus epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX;

EID: 0031416905     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8020(97)00001-1     Document Type: Article

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