Essential tremor (ET): phenotypes and variants

Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .

Essential tremor (ET): phenotypes and variants. Isolated essential tremor, Essential tremor plus. Fully referenced neurology checklist.

Phenotypes

  • Isolated essential tremor
  • Essential tremor plus
  • Essential tremor-Parkinson’s disease (ET-PD)

Cerebellar variant

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Lewy body variant

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References

  1. Bain PG, Findley LJ, Thompson PD, et al. A study of hereditary essential tremor. Brain 1994; 117:805-824.
  2. Louis ED, Ford B, Barnes LF. Clinical subtypes of essential tremor. Arch Neurol 2000; 57:1194-1198.
  3. Nahab FB, Peckham E, Hallett M. Essential tremor, deceptively simple...Pract Neurol 2007; 7:222-233.
  4. Louis ED. Essential tremor: evolving clinicopathological concepts in an era of intensive post-mortem enquiry. Lancet Neurol 2010; 9:613-622.
  5. Louis ED, Faust PL, Vonsattel J-PG, et al. Neuropathological changes in essential tremor: 33 cases compared with 21 controls. Brain 2007; 130:3297-3307.
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