title: Evaluation and differential diagnosis of movement disorders: a flow chart approach.
abstract: This paper presents a flow-chart approach for evaluation and diagnosis of movement disorders MD. It serves as a simple guideline for physicians to evaluate and diagnose patients with MD. It consists of a master flow chart with a step-by-step process for evaluation, a check list table for recording the abnormal findings, a chart for identifying the underlying medical and neurological diseases grouped under the major types of MD, and a table on the drug-induced MD.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*