Abnormal striatal dopaminergic and cardiac sympathetic imaging in dementia with Lewy bodies: Two sides of the same coin

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 707-708

  Treglia, Giorgio ^a   Cason, Ernesto ^b   Giordano, Alessandro ^a   Fagioli, Giorgio ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CARDIAC SYMPATHETIC IMAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRIATAL DOPAMINERGIC IMAGING; STRIATE CORTEX;

HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TROPANES;

EID: 84861203200     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2012.02.014     Document Type: Letter

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