Normal frontal perfusion in patients with frozen gait

Movement Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 677-683

  Fahre, Nelly ^a,b   Brefel, Christine ^a,b   Sabatini, Umberto ^c   Celsis, Pierre ^a   Montastruc, Jean Louis ^b   Chollet, François ^a,b   Rascol, Olivier ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology ^*  (France)

^c IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Freezing; Frontal lobe; Isolated gait ignition failure; Parkinson's disease; Progressive supranuclear palsy; rCBF; SPECT

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0031826246     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870130412     Document Type: Article

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