Pseudoathetosis: Report of three patients

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1520-1522

  Spitz, Mariana ^a,b   Costa Machado, Alexandre Aluízio ^a   do Carmo Carvalho, Rodrigo ^a   Martins Maia, Fernanda ^a   Haddad, Monica Santoro ^a   Calegaro, Dagoberto ^a   Scaff, Milberto ^a   Barbosa, Egberto Reis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Involuntary movements; Pseudoathetosis; Sensory loss

Indexed keywords

BETA1A INTERFERON; CARBAMAZEPINE; GADOLINIUM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATHETOSIS; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MIGRAINE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEGRO; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NEURITIS; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYRINGOMYELIA; VERTIGO;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; ATHETOSIS; BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; RISK FACTORS; SYRINGOMYELIA; THALAMIC DISEASES; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 33750352998     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21014     Document Type: Article

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