Falls in degenerative cerebellar ataxias

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 497-500

  van de Warrenburg, Bart P C ^a   Steijns, Janneke A G ^a   Munneke, Marten ^a   Kremer, Berry P H ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ADCA; Cerebellar ataxia; Falls; ILOCA

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AWARENESS; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISLOCATION; FALLING; FEAR; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 20344391420     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20375     Document Type: Article

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