Pontine MRI hyperintensities ("the cross sign") are not pathognomonic for Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 535-

  Burk K ^a   Skalej, M ^a   Dichgans, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN STEM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; OLIVOPONTOCEREBELLAR ATROPHIES; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

EID: 0035353759     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1107     Document Type: Note

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