Sonography for diagnosis of parkinson disease - From theory to practice: A study on 300 participants

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2069-2074

  Alonso Cánovas, Araceli ^a   López Sendón, José Luis ^a   Buisán, Javier ^a   DeFelipe Mimbrera, Alicia ^a   Guillán, Marta ^a   García Barragán, Nuria ^a   Corral, Iñigo ^a   Matute Lozano, María Consuelo ^a   Masjuan, Jaime ^a   Martínez Castrillo, Juan Carlos ^a   Walter, Uwe ^b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia echogenicity; Diagnosis; Essential tremor; Midbrain transcranial sonography; Neurosonology; Parkinson disease; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ECHOGENICITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; NEUROSONOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSCRANIAL SONOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84919391198     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.33.12.2069     Document Type: Article

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