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News and controversies regarding essential tremor

E Boutin1, M Vaugoyeau1, A Eusebio1

  • 1Service de Neurologie et Pathologie du Mouvement, Pôle de Neurosciences cliniques, CHU de La Timone, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France; CNRS-AMU, LNC UMR 7291, 3, place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France.

Revue Neurologique
|April 12, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
CerebellumCerveletEssential tremorPathophysiologyPhysiopathologieTremblement essentiel

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