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AU Caviness,J.N.
TI Epidemiology of myoclonus
QU Advances in Neurology 2002; 89: 19-22
PT journal article
AB All studies that attempt to evaluate the general occurrence of myoclonus have various biases. Even so, myoclonus has been demonstrated to be an important cause of abnormal movement control when compared to other movement disorders. Clearly, posthypoxia etiology, neurodegenerative disease, and epilepsy syndromes are important individual causes of myoclonus. The epidemiology of myoclonus is worthy of further study in other defined populations.
MH Adolescent; Adult; Age Distribution; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Alzheimer Disease/complications; Child; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/complications; Female; Human; Incidence; Male; Middle Age; Minnesota/epidemiology; Myoclonus/*epidemiology/etiology; Prevalence; Sex Distribution
AD Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
SP englisch
PO USA