Hemiparkinsonism with a discrete lacunar infarction in the contralateral substantia Nigra [2]

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 124-125

  Ohta, Kouichi ^a   Obara, Katsuyuki ^a  

^a Mito Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TREMOR; WALKING;

ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; CARBIDOPA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33244473244     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20747     Document Type: Letter

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