Lower-body parkinsonism: Reconsidering the threshold for external lumbar drainage

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-55

  Espay, Alberto J ^a   Narayan, Raj K ^a   Duker, Andrew P ^a   Barrett, Edwin T ^b   de Courten Myers, Gabrielle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EXTERNAL LUMBAR DRAINAGE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR PARKINSONISM;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; FATAL OUTCOME; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 38349118411     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0688     Document Type: Article

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