Clinical differentiation of essential tremor and Parkinson's disease

Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-74

  Fekete, Robert ^a   Li, Jin ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating tremor; Asynchronous tremor; Essential tremor; Parkinson's disease; Re emergent tremor; SWEDD

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; EDIVOXETINE; IOFLUPANE I 123; PRAMIPEXOLE; RASAGILINE; SELEGILINE; SERTRALINE;

AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRADYKINESIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LATENT PERIOD; PARKINSON DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPECT SCANNER; TREMOR; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 85128444878     PISSN: 11795476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/ccrep.s11903     Document Type: Article

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