Short latency trigemino-sternocleidomastoid response in muscles in patients with spasmodic torticollis and blepharospasm

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1672-1677

  Quartarone, A ^a   Girlanda, P ^a   Di Lazzaro, V ^b   Majorana, G ^a   Battaglia, F ^a   Messina, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exteroceptive suppression; Infraorbital nerve; Torticollis; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRAORBITAL NERVE; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPASMODIC TORTICOLLIS; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ADULT; BLEPHAROSPASM; DYSTONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLES; REACTION TIME; TORTICOLLIS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0034283690     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00359-X     Document Type: Article

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