Cerebellar pathology of a dual clinical diagnosis: Patients with essential tremor and dystonia

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ma, Karen ^a   Babij, Rachel ^a   Cortés, Etty ^b   Vonsattel, Jean Paul G ^b   Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Epidemiology   (United States)

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

^c Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Dystonia; Essential tremor; Neuropathology; Purkinje cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 85115775243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21608288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5334/TOHM.94     Document Type: Article

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