Transcranial parenhymal sonography in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease
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Transcranial sonography for diagnosis of Parkinson's disease
BACKGROUND In idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) transcranial sonography (TCS) represents an alternative diagnostic method to verify clinical diagnosis. Although the phenomenon of an increased echogenicity of the Substantia nigra (SN) is well known this method is still not widly used in the diagnostic workup. Until now reliability of this method is still a matter of debate, partly because dat...
متن کامل[Transcranial sonography for the diagnosis of Parkinson disease].
BACKGROUND The detection of hyperechogenicity of the substantia nigra using trans cranial sonography can be predictive of the diagnosis of Parkinson Disease. AIM To report an experience with transcranial sonography for the diagnosis of Parkinson disease. Material ana METHODS One hundred sixteen patients with movement disorders were subjected to a transcranial sonography to detect the presen...
متن کامل[Transcranial sonography in Parkinson's disease].
An abnormal hyperechogenecity of substantia nigra is thought to be the most characteristic sonographic feature in Parkinson's disease (PD). However specificity and sensitivity of the ultrasound method should be refined. Using transcranial sonography, authors have examined 168 patients with different clinical signs of parkinsonism, including 99 patients with idiopathic PD, and 56 patients withou...
متن کاملTranscranial sonography in the evaluation of Parkinson disease.
OBJECTIVE With transcranial sonography (TS), it is possible to visualize hyperechoic signals in the sub-stantia nigra (SN) in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Our objective was to correlate the level of echogenicity in the SN with clinical status in patients with PD. METHODS In our pilot study, using TS, we examined 15 patients with the confirmed presence of PD. Staging of the latest cli...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Journal of Serbia
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0042-8450,2406-0720
DOI: 10.2298/vsp0808601m