Posttraumatic tremor without parkinsonism in a patient with complete contralateral loss of the nigrostriatal pathway

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1086-1088

  Zijlmans, Jan ^a,b,c   Booij, Jan ^d   Valk, Jaap ^c   Lees, Andrew ^a,b   Horstink, Martin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Holmes tremor; Parkinson's disease; Posttraumatic tremor

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; IODINE 123;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RIGIDITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRIATONIGRAL DEGENERATION; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; TREMOR;

EID: 0036764834     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10203     Document Type: Article

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