Isolated high-frequency jaw tremor relieved by botulinum toxin injections

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1049-1050

  Gonzalez Alegre, Pedro ^a   Kelkar, Praful ^a   Rodnitzky, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Botulinum toxin therapy; Jaw tremor

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; PAROXETINE; PRIMIDONE; PROGESTERONE; PROPRANOLOL; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; JAW DISEASE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIVERING; TREMOR;

ADULT; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; BOTULINUM TOXINS, TYPE A; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; JAW DISEASES; MASSETER MUSCLE; TREMOR; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 33746869625     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20878     Document Type: Article

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