Essential tremor: Differential diagnosis and current therapy

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 134-142

  Pahwa, Rajesh ^a   Lyons, Kelly E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN; GABAPENTIN; LITHIUM; METHYLXANTHINE DERIVATIVE; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; THYROXINE; TOCAINAMIDE; TOPIRAMATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VALPROIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL; AMINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FRUCTOSE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG TOXICITY; DYSTONIA; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THALAMOTOMY; THYROTOXICOSIS; TREMOR; UNITED STATES; METHODOLOGY; THALAMUS;

ACETIC ACIDS; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AMINES; ANTI-DYSKINESIA AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BENZODIAZEPINES; BOTULINUM TOXINS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ETHANOL; FRUCTOSE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; PRIMIDONE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0042236596     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(03)00259-6     Document Type: Review

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