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Movement disorders
Maria Graciela Cersosimo1, William C Koller
1Movement Disorder Program, Hospital de Clinicas Jose de San Martin, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Medical Clinics of North America
|July 2, 2003
Abstract:
Movement disorders are commonly encountered in clinical practice. The diagnosis of movement disorders relies on a focused history and neurologic examination. Diagnostic steps include (1) identification of the phenomenology of the movements (eg, tremor); (2) characterization of appropriate clinical syndromes; and (3) differential diagnosis of specific disease entities. Accurate diagnosis is essential because symptomatic treatment exists for most movement disorders.