Parkinsonism and other movement disorders in outpatients in chronic use of cinnarizine and flunarizine
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Parkinsonism and other movement disorders in outpatients in chronic use of cinnarizine and flunarizine.
The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and the patterns of movement disorders (MD) in outpatients submitted to the chronic use of cinnarizine (cz) or flunarizine (fz), and to establish the main risk factors for MD development. Over a period of 3 months, data were collected from outpatients who were chronic users of cz or fz in a municipal health institute. A total of 26 outpat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2004000500008