We report the cases of two patients with adult-onset, simple, nonvarying tic disorder that commenced after a peripheral (non-CNS) injury. The first patient is a 38-year-old man who suffered a right facial injury when his car fell off its jack while he was working underneath. Bilateral facial twitchi
Adult onset tics after peripheral injury
โ Scribed by Sevda Erer; Joseph Jankovic
- Book ID
- 116820304
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1353-8020
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