Transcranial brain sonography findings in discriminating between parkinsonism and idiopathic Parkinson disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1635-1640

  Walter, Uwe ^a   Dressler, Dirk ^a   Probst, Thomas ^a,b   Wolters, Alexander ^a   Abu Mugheisib, Mazen ^a   Wittstock, Matthias ^a   Benecke, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b District Hospital Mainkofen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX RATIO; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 36148935186     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.11.1635     Document Type: Article

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