Transcranial sonography findings in welding-related Parkinsonism in comparison to Parkinson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-145

  Walter, Uwe ^a   Dressler, Dirk ^a   Lindemann, Christian ^b   Slachevsky, Andrea ^b   Miranda, Marcelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b CLÍNICA LAS CONDES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Brain parenchyma sonography; Parkinson's disease; Substantia nigra; Transcranial sonography; Welding related Parkinsonism

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; WELDING; WELDING FUME;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; WELDING;

EID: 39549101028     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21795     Document Type: Article

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