Benign tremulous Parkinson's disease: A misnomer?

Movement Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-119

  Deuschl, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

AKINESIA; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRADYKINESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; EDITORIAL; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84874221592     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25317     Document Type: Editorial

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