Surgical treatment of cortical tremor.

Autor: Ogungbo, Biodun, Rodriguez-Rubio, David, Gholkar, Anil, Mendelow, David
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Zdroj: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine; Jun2001, Vol. 94 Issue 6, p301-302, 2p
Abstrakt: The article presents a case report involving a 50-year-old woman who sought because of continuous shaking of her left hand that interfered with her daily life. She was diagnosed to have cortical tremor, a disease easily mistaken for parkinsonism. Researchers stress that ablation of the underlying lesion can be curative. Brief discussion of the case history, and the clinical examinations conducted are presented.
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