Essential tremor in childhood: a series of nineteen cases.

摘要: One in 20 essential tremor (ET) cases arises during childhood. We report 19 pediatric ET (mean age = 12.7 years). The majority (68.4%) were male, and only one had head tremor. Childhood adult forms of may differ several important respects, providing information about the underlying biology ET. A possible male preponderance childhood could reflect a modification disease expression by gender, such that males manifest at an earlier than females. paucity with suggests neuropathological changes evolve somatotopically. Head require midline or more extensive bilateral pathology which occur later disease.