Wilson's disease tremor is associated with magnetic resonance imaging lesions in basal ganglia structures

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2134-2139

  Südmeyer, Martin ^a   Saleh, Andreas ^b   Wojtecki, Lars ^a   Cohnen, Mathias ^b   Gross, Joachim ^a   Ploner, Markus ^a   Hefter, Harald ^a   Timmerman, Lars ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; MRI; Tremor; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

CHELATING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER METABOLISM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TREMOR; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE; WILSON DISEASE;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS;

EID: 33846438585     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21136     Document Type: Article

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