Animal models of benign essential blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm

Movement Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 253-263

  Evinger, Craig ^a   Kassem, Iris S ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088382-0/50021-9     Document Type: Chapter

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