Disturbances of precision grip in Huntington's disease
✍ Scribed by Stuart Fellows; Michael Schwarz; Claus Schaffrath; Frank Dömges; Johannes Noth
- Book ID
- 117475372
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Volume
- 226
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0304-3940
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