Slow orthostatic tremor can persist when walking backward

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 795-797

  Williams, Elizabeth R ^a   Jones, Richard E ^b   Baker, Stuart N ^a   Baker, Mark R ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC TREMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREMOR; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 77951800221     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23024     Document Type: Letter

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