Midbrain transcranial sonography in Korean patients with Parkinson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1922-1926

  Ji, Youn Kim ^a   Seong, Tae Kim ^a   Seong, Hee Jeon ^b   Won, Yong Lee ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Korean; Parkinson's disease; Substantia nigra; Transcranial sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORGAN SIZE; PARKINSON DISEASE; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 36248970053     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21628     Document Type: Article

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