Clinical and electromyographic examinations of patients with psychogenic tremor

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 387-392

  Milanov, Ivan ^a  

^a Univ Neurological Hospital St Naum   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; LIMB DISEASE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RECORDING; SYMPTOM; TREMOR;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREMOR;

EID: 0036789748     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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