Refractory head movements secondary to Sandifer syndrome treated with enteral feeding

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1754-1755

  Wasserman, Jason K ^a   Jimenez Rivera, Carolina ^b   Doja, Asif ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DOMPERIDONE; LANSOPRAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL DYSTONIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTERIC FEEDING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LETTER; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOSE FEEDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OPISTHOTONUS; PH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLOROPLASTY; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SANDIFER SYNDROME; SLIT LAMP; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; TIC;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 77955781882     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23161     Document Type: Letter

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