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Printed in Great Britain LETTER TO THE EDITOR HAND DEFORMITIES IN PARKINSONISM
IN HIS original and classic description of the disease that now bears his name, PARKINSON [l] noted the progressive muscular rigidity, the characteristic pill-rolling tremor, the stooping posture, the shufEing gait and the akinesia that characterize this condition. He did not, however, describe the digital deformities that are the subject of this paper. C~GCESHALL [2] states that “Charcot first...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Chronic Diseases
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0021-9681
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9681(65)90080-9