Atypical propriospinal myoclonus with possible relationship to α interferon therapy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1564-1568

  Benatru, Isabelle ^a   Thobois, Stéphanie ^a   Andre Obadia, Nathalie ^b   Gonnaud, Pierre Marie ^b   Beaugendre, Yara ^a   Berger, Colette ^b   Gonce, Michel ^c   Broussolle, Emmanuel ^a  

^a Service de Neurologie D   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^c Service Universitaire de Neurologie   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2A INTERFERON; CELL ANTIBODY; CLONAZEPAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SKIN STIMULATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCLONUS; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPINAL CORD; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0347031311     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10614     Document Type: Article

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