Transcranial brain sonography in Parkinson's disease with restless legs syndrome

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1373-1378

  Kwon, Do Young ^a   Seo, Woo Keun ^a   Yoon, Ho Kyoung ^b   Park, Moon Ho ^a   Koh, Seong Beom ^a   Park, Kun Woo ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Echogenicity; Parkinson's disease; Restless legs syndrome; Transcranial brain sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROIMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 77954984545     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23066     Document Type: Article

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