A validation exercise on the new consensus criteria for multiple system atrophy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2272-2276

  Osaki, Yasushi ^a,b   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^c   Lees, Andrew J ^d,e   Wenning, Gregor K ^f   Quinn, Niall P ^g  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic failure; Cerebellar ataxia; Diagnostic criteria; Multiple system atrophy; Parkinsonism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION VARIABLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEWY BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; VALIDATION STUDY;

COHORT STUDIES; CONSENSUS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 72849108778     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22826     Document Type: Article

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