Distinguishing essential tremor from Parkinson's disease: Bedside tests and laboratory evaluations

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 687-696

  Thenganatt, Mary Ann ^a   Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology   (United States)

^c Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical; DAT SPECT; diagnosis; essential tremor; laboratory; olfaction; Parkinson's disease; postmortem; tests

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

ACCELEROMETRY; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; REVIEW;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861738058     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.12.49     Document Type: Review

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