A follow-up study of substantia nigra echogenicity in healthy adults

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1196-1197

  Mahlknecht, Philipp ^a   Stockner, Heike ^a   Nocker, Michael ^a   Kiechl, Stefan ^a   Willeit, Johann ^a   Scherfler, Christoph ^a   Sojer, Martin ^a   Gasperi, Arno ^b   Rungger, Gregorio ^b   Poewe, Werner ^a   Seppi, Klaus ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Hospital of Bruneck   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STEM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

AGED; BRAIN STEM; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; ROC CURVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84864758540     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25080     Document Type: Letter

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