Use of botulinum toxin in pediatric spas
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Steffen Berweck; Florian Heinen
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Local injection of botulinum toxin (BT) is a wellestablished treatment option for spastic movement disorders in children. BT blocks the release of acetylcholine from the axon terminal into the synaptic cleft of the motor endplate resulting in paresis of the injected musculature. Such localised, temp