Motor dysfunction in patients with liver cirrhosis: Impairment of handwriting

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 349-356

  Mechtcheriakov, Sergei ^a   Graziadei, Ivo W ^a   Kugener, André ^a   Schuster, Ingrid ^a   Mueller, Joerg ^a   Hinterhuber, Hartmann ^a   Vogel, Wolfgang ^a   Marksteiner, Josef ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Handwriting; Hepatic encephalopathy; Kinematic analysis; Liver cirrhosis; Neuro psychiatric rating

Indexed keywords

ADIADOCHOKINESIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOMATION; BRADYKINESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSMETRIA; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33644949932     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-005-0995-5     Document Type: Article

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