Delayed-onset parkinsonian tremor following a mesencephalic lesion

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-66

  Lampreia, Tânia ^a   Bugalho, Paulo ^a   Soares, Pedro ^b   Santos, Luís ^a  

^a HOSPITAL EGAS MONIZ   (Portugal)

^b Instituto Portugus de Oncologia de Francisco Gentil   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dopaminergic pathway; Mesencephalic lesion; Parkinsonian tremor; Prerubric area

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA;

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; LETTER; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; WALKING;

ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; CARBIDOPA; DOPAMINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TREMOR;

EID: 78651073263     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2010.08.024     Document Type: Letter

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