Internal consistency of a Brazilian version of the Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 977-982

  Tumas, Vitor ^a   Teixeira Camargos, Sarah ^a   Samandar Jalali, Paulo ^a   De Paula Galesso, Adriano ^a   Marques Jr , Wilson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian version; Huntington's disease; Reliability; Unified Huntington's disease rating scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DISEASE DURATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ONSET AGE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 10944251273     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2004000600009     Document Type: Article

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