Handedness as a predictor of side of onset of Parkinson's disease

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 633-635

  Yust Katz, Shlomit ^a,b   Tesler, Debora ^a,b   Treves, Theres A ^a,b   Melamed, Eldad ^a,b   Djaldetti, Ruth ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Handedness; Parkinson's disease; Side onset

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SYMPTOM; TREMOR; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 55749110573     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2008.01.017     Document Type: Article

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