Prevalence of unilateral tremor in autosomal dominant essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 108-111

  Phibbs, Fenna ^a   Fang, John Y ^a   Cooper, Michael K ^a   Charles, David P ^a   Davis, Thomas L ^a   Hedera, Peter ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Essential tremor; Parkinson disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIGREE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ARM; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; POSTURE; PREVALENCE; REST; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449220223     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22113     Document Type: Article

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