Arteriosclerosis in Parkinsonism.
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چکیده
Some textbooks on general and neurological medicine give the impression that cerebral arteriosclerosis is an important cause of Parkinsonism (e.g., Alpers, 1945; Yater, 1949; Purves-Stewart and Worster-Drought, 1952; Wilson, 1955; Cecil and Loeb, 1959; Grinker, Bucy, and Sahs, 1959; Merritt, 1959; Baker, 1962; Brain, 1962). Whether or not this is so, it is often very difficult to distinguish clinically between arteriosclerotic and other aetiological types of Parkinsonism in the individual patient (Merritt, 1959). Experience of this difficulty has led to an examination of some aspects of the concept of arteriosclerotic Parkinsonism. widened the concept of arteriosclerotic Parkinsonism so that it came to resemble classical paralysis agitans rather more than had Critchley's (1929) original account. Perhaps, partly in reaction to this blurring of aetiological identities, clinicians have more recently expressed misgivings concerning the role of arteriosclerosis in producing Parkinsonism (Schwab and England, 1958; Heyman, 1959; Howell, 1959; Merritt, 1959; Walton, 1961). Doshay (1960) now considers that 'the arteriosclerotic variety is undoubtedly part and parcel of the idiopathic'.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
دوره 27 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1964