Uses of botulinum toxin injection in medicine today

British Medical Journal

Volumn 320, Issue 7228, 2000, Pages 161-165

  Munchau A ^a   Bhatia, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN A;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANUS FISSURE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG USE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPASTICITY; STRABISMUS; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TORTICOLLIS;

BOTULINUM TOXINS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; STRABISMUS;

EID: 0034651211     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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