A case of myoclonic cortical tremor after extirpation of a parietal meningioma

Movement Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1033-1035

  Bötzel, Kai ^a   Werhahn, Konrad J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TREMOR;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREMOR;

EID: 0345439998     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8257(199911)14:6<1033::AID-MDS1022>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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