Severe dysphagia as a presentation of Parkinson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 457-458

  Noyce, Alastair J ^a   Silveira Moriyama, Laura ^a   Gilpin, Patricia ^b   Ling, Helen ^a   Howard, Robin ^b   Lees, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

AGED; BRADYKINESIA; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIMB TREMOR; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84858284758     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.24006     Document Type: Letter

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