Cortical tremor secondary to a frontal cortical lesion

Movement Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 370-374

  Wang, Han Cheng ^a   Hsu, Wei Chih ^a   Brown, Peter ^b  

^a SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CASE REPORT; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR;

AGED; ARM; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TREMOR;

EID: 0033452438     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8257(199903)14:2<370::AID-MDS1031>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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