Pure autonomic failure with altered dopamine transporter imaging

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 604-605

  Compta, Yaroslau ^b   Martí, Maria José ^a   Paredes, Pilar ^b   Tolosa, Eduardo ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; EPHEDRINE; FLUDROCORTISONE; IOFLUPANE I 123; METAIODOBENZYLGUANIDINE I 123; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33645732124     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.63.4.604     Document Type: Article

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