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Deep brain stimulation in the treatment of severe dystonia

✍ Scribed by Laurent Vercueil; Pierre Pollak; Valérie Fraix; Elena Caputo; Elena Moro; Abdelhamid Benazzouz; Jing Xie; Adnan Koudsie; Alim-Louis Benabid

Publisher
Springer
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
231 KB
Volume
248
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-5354

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