Unilateral lower limb rest tremor is not necessarily a presenting symptom of Parkinson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 924-927

  Hellmann, Mark A ^a,b   Melamed, Eldad ^a,b   Steinmetz, Adam P ^a,b   Djaldetti, Ruth ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lower limb; Multiple system atrophy; Parkinson's disease; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREMOR;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR;

EID: 77951966237     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23030     Document Type: Article

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