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Eye movement disorders are different in Parkin-linked and idiopathic early-onset PD.
Neurology - 13 Jul 2010
Machner B, Klein C, Sprenger A, Baumbach P, Pramstaller P P, Helmchen C, Heide W
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OBJECTIVES: Parkin gene mutations are the most common cause of early-onset parkinsonism. Patients with Parkin mutations may be clinically indistinguishable from patients with idiopathic early-onset Parkinson disease (EOPD) without Parkin mutations. Eye movement disorders have been shown to differentiate parkinsonian syndromes, but have never been systematically studied in Parkin mutation carriers. METHODS: Eye...
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