Environmental risk factors and clinical phenotype in familial and sporadic primary blepharospasm

Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 631-637

  Defazio, G ^a   Abbruzzese, G ^b   Aniello, M S ^a   Bloise, M ^c   Crisci, C ^d   Eleopra, R ^e   Fabbrini, G ^c   Girlanda, P ^f   Liguori, R ^g   MacErollo, A ^a   Marinelli, L ^b   Martino, D ^a   Morgante, F ^f   Santoro, L ^c   Tinazzi, M ^h   Berardelli, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSTONIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE DISEASE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY BLEPHAROSPASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SPORADIC DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLEPHAROSPASM; COFFEE; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80055082869     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182299e13     Document Type: Article

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