The predictive value of transcranial duplex sonography for the clinical diagnosis in undiagnosed parkinsonian syndromes: Comparison with SPECT scans

BMC Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Vlaar, Annemarie M M ^a   de Nijs, Tjerk ^a   Van Kroonenburgh, Marinus J P G ^a   Mess, Werner H ^a   Winogrodzka, Ania ^a   Tromp, Selma C ^b   Weber, Wim E J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION VARIABLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSONISM; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREDICTION; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRIATONIGRAL DEGENERATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 58749088232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-8-42     Document Type: Article

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