Clinical manifestations of essential tremor
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Clinical manifestations of essential tremor.
A clinical study of 42 patients with essential tremor is presented. In the case of 12 patients the family history strongly suggested an autosomal dominant mode of transmission, in four the mode of inheritance was indeterminate, and the remaining 26 patients were sporadic cases without an established genetic basis. The tremor involved the upper extremities in 41 patients, the head in 25, lower l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.35.3.365