Diagnostic value of fine motor deficits in patients with low-grade hepatic encephalopathy

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2777-2780

  Mechtcheriakov, Sergei ^a   Graziadei, Ivo W ^a   Rettenbacher, Maria ^a   Schuster, Ingrid ^a   Hinterhuber, Hartmann ^a   Vogel, Wolfgang ^a   Marksteiner, Josef ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Handwriting; Hepatic encephalopathy; Kinematic analysis; Liver cirrhosis; Motor dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRAWING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDWRITING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PATIENT MONITORING; PILOT STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 18944386290     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i18.2777     Document Type: Article

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