Camptocormia in Parkinson's disease mimicked by focal myositis of the paraspinal muscles

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 598-600

  Wunderlich, Silke ^a   Csoti, Ilona ^b   Reiners, Karlheinz ^a   Günthner Lengsfeld, Thomas ^a   Schneider, Christiane ^a   Becker, Georg ^a   Naumann, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Gertrudis Klinik Biskirchen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BACKACHE; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; MALE; MYOSITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; STEROID THERAPY; SUPINE POSITION; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; WALKING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BACK; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CREATINE KINASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSITIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036589844     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10110     Document Type: Article

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