Age at onset and symptom spread in primary adult-onset blepharospasm and cervical dystonia

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1447-1450

  Martino, Davide ^a   Berardelli, Alfredo ^b   Abbruzzese, Giovanni ^c   Bentivoglio, Anna Rita ^d   Esposito, Marcello ^e   Fabbrini, Giovanni ^b   Guidubaldi, Arianna ^d   Girlanda, Paolo ^f   Liguori, Rocco ^g   Marinelli, Lucio ^c   Morgante, Francesca ^f   Santoro, Lucio ^e   Defazio, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical neurology; Dystonia; Epidemiology; Movement disorders; Neuroepidemiology

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; CERVICAL DYSTONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OROMANDIBULAR DYSTONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BLEPHAROSPASM; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 84866616885     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25088     Document Type: Article

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