Transcranial sonography in essential tremor

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 90, Issue C, 2010, Pages 189-197

  Stockner, Heike ^a   Wurster, Isabel ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Essential tremor; Parkinson's disease; Transcranial sonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 77955409083     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7742(10)90014-7     Document Type: Chapter

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