## Abstract We describe a 46βyearβold woman who presented with lingual dystonia induced only by speaking, which responded well to anticholinergic treatment. Β© 2004 Movement Disorder Society
Primary focal lingual dystonia
β Scribed by Spiridon Papapetropoulos; Carlos Singer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 47 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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