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The Problem of Questionable Dystonia in the Diagnosis of ‘Essential Tremor-Plus’

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Volume 10 (2020): Issue 0
By: Sanjay Pandey,  Sonali Bhattad and  Mark Hallett  
Open Access
|Aug 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.539 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 8, 2020
Accepted on: Jul 16, 2020
Published on: Aug 13, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Essential tremor,
Dystonic tremor,
Dystonia,
Neurophysiology

© 2020 Sanjay Pandey, Sonali Bhattad, Mark Hallett, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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