Postoperative cervical dystonia: Is it an occult injury to the corticospinal tracts?

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 125-

  Dickerman, Rob D ^a,b   Reynolds, Ashley S ^a  

^a Presbyterian Hospital of Plano   (United States)

^b Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL DYSTONIA; CERVICAL SPINE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINE SURGERY;

DYSTONIC DISORDERS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 33746587871     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094464     Document Type: Letter

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