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Pure akinesia with gait freezing: a third clinical phenotype of progressive supranuclear palsy.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 15 Nov 2007
Williams David R, Holton Janice L, Strand Kate, Revesz Tamas, Lees Andrew J
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The clinical syndrome of pure akinesia has most often been associated with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and is characterized by difficulty initiating gait and "freezing" during walking, writing and speaking. Similar syndromes have been described under the rubrics of primary progressive freezing gait and primary gait ignition failure. We investigated the specificity of the clinical syndrome of pure...
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