Community survey of primary dystonia in the city of Kolkata, India

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2031-2036

  Das, Shyamal K ^a   Banerjee, Tapas K ^b   Biswas, Atanu ^a   Roy, Trishit ^a   Raut, Deepak K ^c   Chaudhuri, Arijit ^d   Hazra, Abhijit ^e  

^a BANGUR INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY   (India)

^b National Neurosciences Centre   (India)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (India)

^d INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^e INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Dystonia; Focal dystonia; India; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 37549043520     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21446     Document Type: Article

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