Diagnostic accuracy of the magnetic resonance Parkinsonism index and the midbrain-to-pontine area ratio to differentiate progressive supranuclear palsy from Parkinson's disease and the Parkinson variant of multiple system atrophy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2444-2449

  Hussl, Anna ^a   Mahlknecht, Philipp ^a   Scherfler, Christoph ^a   Esterhammer, Regina ^a   Schocke, Michael ^a   Poewe, Werner ^a   Seppi, Klaus ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Midbrain to pontine area ratio; MR parkinsonism index; MR planimetry; Multiple system atrophy; Parkinson's disease; Parkinsonism; Progressive supranuclear palsy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE PARKINSONISM INDEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PONS; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE;

EID: 77958590640     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23351     Document Type: Article

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