Teaching NeuroImage: Posttraumatic palatal tremor
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Teaching NeuroImage: posttraumatic palatal tremor.
A 56-year-old man with head injury, loss of consciousness, and normal head CT 6 weeks prior presented with persistent headache. No neurologic deficit was elicited on examination except for involuntary rhythmic movements of the soft palate, from which he was asymptomatic (video on the Neurology Web site at www. neurology.org). In particular, he did not complain of ear clicks, and no treatment wa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000326578.18675.3a