Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 163-166 , March 2010

Conjugal Parkinsonism and Parkinson disease: A case series with environmental risk factor analysis

  • Allison W. Willis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, United States
    • American Parkinson Disease Association, Advanced Center for Parkinson Research, Saint Louis, MO 63110, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Box 8111, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA. Tel.: +1 314 362 6908.
    • ,
  • Callen Sterling

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, United States
    • American Parkinson Disease Association, Advanced Center for Parkinson Research, Saint Louis, MO 63110, United States
    • ,
  • Brad A. Racette

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, United States
    • American Parkinson Disease Association, Advanced Center for Parkinson Research, Saint Louis, MO 63110, United States

Received 26 February 2009 ,Revised 30 July 2009 ,Accepted 8 September 2009.

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☆ The review of this paper was entirely handled by an Associate Editor, Robert Rodnitzky.

PII: S1353-8020(09)00224-7

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2009.09.002

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
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