To test or not? the value of diagnostic tests in cervical dystonia

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 286-289

  Risvoll, Hilde ^a   Kerty, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CERULOPLASMIN; TOXIN ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CERULOPLASMIN BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; CERULOPLASMIN; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035297129     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1043     Document Type: Article

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