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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Albanese A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5289979 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Literary reports on dystonia date back to post-Medieval times. Medical reports are instead more recent. We review here the early descriptions and the historical establishment of a consensus on the clinical phenomenology and the diagnostic features of dystonia syndromes. Lumping and splitting exercises have characterized this area of knowledge, and it remains largely unclear how many dystonia types we are to count. This review describes the history leading to recognize that focal dystonia syndrom ...[more]