Relationship between multiple sclerosis intention tremor severity and lesion load in the brainstem

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1379-1382

  Feys, Peter ^a,c   Maes, Frederik ^b   Nuttin, Bart ^a   Helsen, Werner ^a   Malfait, Veerle ^a   Nagels, Guy ^c   Lavrysen, Ann ^a   Liu, Xuguang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c National Multiple Sclerosis Center   (Belgium)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Cerebellar tremor; Intention tremor; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR;

BRAIN STEM; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREMOR;

EID: 24044553014     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000176521.26971.58     Document Type: Article

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