Essential tremor is a monosymptomatic disorder

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 633-637

  Elble, Rodger J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA; BRADYKINESIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; GENETIC DISORDER; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 0036653194     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10222     Document Type: Review

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