Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 62-63 , January 2009

Frequency and significance of vocalizations in Sydenham's chorea

  • Antonio Lúcio de Teixeira

      Affiliations

    • Clínica de Movimentos Anormais, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, UFMG, Brazil
    • ,
  • Francisco Cardoso

      Affiliations

    • Clínica de Movimentos Anormais, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, UFMG, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Internal Medicine, Av. Pasteur 89/1107, 30150-290 Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil. Tel.: +55 31 32131055; fax: +55 31 32134951.
    • ,
  • Débora P. Maia

      Affiliations

    • Clínica de Movimentos Anormais, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • ,
  • Daniel R. Sacramento

      Affiliations

    • Clínica de Movimentos Anormais, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • ,
  • Cleonice de Carvalho Coelho Mota

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Pediatria, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • ,
  • Zilda Maria Alves Meira

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Pediatria, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • ,
  • Andrew Lees

      Affiliations

    • Reta Lella Weston Institute, London, UK

Received 25 October 2007 ,Revised 6 January 2008 ,Accepted 18 January 2008.

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PII: S1353-8020(08)00041-2

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2008.01.014

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 62-63 , January 2009

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