Unilateral disappearance of essential tremor after cerebral hemispheric infarct [2]

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 354-355

  Constantino, Anne E A ^a   Louis, Elan D ^a,b  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; HEPARIN;

ACCELEROMETER; AGED; ANKLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLONUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIAL NERVE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STROKE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOICE;

AGED; ARM; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; REMISSION INDUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037354403     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-003-0970-y     Document Type: Letter

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