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A case of useless hand as a first demyelinating event

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  1. Ibn Rochd University Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco

    Tarik Benhsain & Zaynab Abdulhakeem

  2. Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco

    Bouchra El Moutawakil, Mohammed Abdoh Rafai & Hicham El Otmani

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Supplementary material 1: Pseudoathetoid movement of the left hand worsened by eye closure. (MP4 23702 KB)

Supplementary material 2: Disappearance of the pseudoathetoid movement when the limb rests on a hard surface. (MP4 34707 KB)

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Benhsain, T., Abdulhakeem, Z., Moutawakil, B.E. et al. A case of useless hand as a first demyelinating event. Acta Neurol Belg 120, 1193–1195 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-019-01109-3

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