Bent knees and tiptoeing: Late manifestations of end-stage Parkinson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1325-1328

  Djaldetti, Ruth ^a,b   Hellmann, Mark ^a,b   Melamed, Eldad ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bent knees; End stage; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSKINESIA; GAIT; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; MOBILIZATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURE; PROGNOSIS; TOES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 8844266907     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20187     Document Type: Article

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