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ArticleMovement disorders clinical practice

Dystonia in Patients With Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2.

Vladana Markovic, Natasa T Dragasevic-Miskovic, Iva Stankovic, Igor Petrovic, Marina Svetel, Vladimir S Kostić

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Article in Movement disorders clinical practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Spectrum of Dystonia in Spinocerebellar Ataxia.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
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  2. Cerebellar control of targeted tongue movements.The Journal of physiology · 2025
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  4. Neuro-respiratory pathology in spinocerebellar ataxia.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vladana MarkovicNeurology Clinic Clinical Center of Serbia Belgrade Serbia.
Natasa T Dragasevic-MiskovicNeurology Clinic Clinical Center of Serbia Belgrade Serbia.
Iva StankovicNeurology Clinic Clinical Center of Serbia Belgrade Serbia.
Igor PetrovicNeurology Clinic Clinical Center of Serbia Belgrade Serbia.
Marina SvetelNeurology Clinic Clinical Center of Serbia Belgrade Serbia.
Vladimir S KostićNeurology Clinic Clinical Center of Serbia Belgrade Serbia.
Centar za Promociju Nauke · RSUniversity of Belgrade · RS

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dystonia has been described in various genetically proven spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs), most often in SCA3, SCA17, and SCA2 patients. In this report, we describe different types of dystonia observed in 5 of our 11 SCA2 patients. All our patients had cranial and/or cervical dystonia with focal or segmental distribution. Except for 1 case with isolated cervical dystonia, all other patients had lower cranial affection of variable severity. Although it is difficult to describe ataxia-dystonia syndrome that would be highly characteristic for SCA2, we suggest that occurrence of dystonia in a patient with slowly evolving cerebellar disease should, besides SCA3 and SCA17, also suggest SCA2 testing. In patients with lower cranial dystonia, especially jaw and tongue dystonia, SCA2 should be considered during the diagnostic workup.

Indexed as

cerebellar syndromecervical dystoniajaw‐opening dystonia

Identifiers

PMID30713920
PMCPMC6353333
OpenAlexW2204172594

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