Skin temperature of the hand in multiple system atrophy and Parkinson's disease

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 560-562

  Asahina, Masato ^a   Low, David A ^b,c   Mathias, Christopher J ^b,c   Fujinuma, Yoshikatsu ^a   Katagiri, Akira ^a   Yamanaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Shimada, Junichiro ^a   Poudel, Anupama ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Multiple system atrophy; Parkinson's disease; Skin temperature; Skin vasomotor function

Indexed keywords

AMEZINIUM; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE INHIBITOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ENTACAPONE; SELEGILINE; TALTIRELIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HAND PALM; HOEHN AND YAHR SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84875526870     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2013.01.015     Document Type: Article

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