How doctors think - and treat with botulinum toxin

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 875-876

  Schroeder, A Sebastian ^a   Koerte, Inga ^a   Berweck, Steffen ^b   Ertl Wagner, Birgit ^a   Heinen, Florian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Epilepsy Centre for Children and Adolescents   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS; ESTHETICS; FOLLOW UP; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE ATROPHY; LETTER; MEDICAL CARE; MEDLINE; MUSCLE SPASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; THINKING; ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DRUG EFFECTS; LEG; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

ATROPHY; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; TIME FACTORS; BOTULINUM TOXINS, TYPE A;

EID: 77955766715     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03692.x     Document Type: Letter

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