Clinical Reasoning: A 52-year-old woman with subacute hemichorea

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Kranick, Sarah M ^a,b   Price, Raymond S ^a   Prasad, Sashank ^a   Hurtig, Howard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMIBALLISM; HUMAN; PARESTHESIA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROGENIC DIABETES INSIPIDUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUTAMEN;

CHOREA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS, NEPHROGENIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PUTAMEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149382707     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000334759.72146.39     Document Type: Article

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