A new diagnostic test to distinguish tremulous Parkinson's disease from advanced essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1548-1552

  Muthuraman, Muthuraman ^a   Hossen, Abdulnasir ^b   Heute, Ulrich ^a   Deuschl, Günther ^a   Raethjen, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Accelerometry; Differential diagnosis; Essential tremor; Parkinsonian tremor

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123;

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FLUORODOPA POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT CODING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTURAL TREMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURE; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960611781     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23672     Document Type: Article

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