Arm tremor in cervical dystonia-Is it a manifestation of dystonia or essential tremor?

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1789-1792

  Schiebler, Sarah ^a,b   Schmidt, Alexander ^c   Zittel, Simone ^a   Bäumer, Tobias ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Klein, Christine ^c   Münchau, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arm tremor; Cervical dystonia; Essential tremor

Indexed keywords

ARM DISEASE; ARM TREMOR; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CERVICAL DYSTONIA; CLINICAL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FOREARM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEREDITY; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; TORTICOLLIS; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052263940     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23837     Document Type: Article

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