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Atypical parkinsonism in Guadeloupe: a common risk factor for two closely related phenotypes?
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Mar 2007
Lannuzel Annie, Höglinger G U, Verhaeghe S, Gire L, Belson S, Escobar-Khondiker M, Poullain P, Oertel W H, Hirsch E C, Dubois B, Ruberg M
Abstract excerpt
In Guadeloupe, there is an abnormally high frequency of atypical parkinsonism. Only one-third of the patients that develop parkinsonian symptoms were reported to present the classical features of idiopathic Parkinson disease and one-third a syndrome resembling progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). The others were unclassifiable, according to established criteria. We carried out a cross-sectional study of 160...
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