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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-10-7
pubmed:abstractText
We discuss the potential role of dopamine transporter (DAT) imaging by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) as a biological marker for differentiating among parkinsonian disorders in routine clinical practice, and the implication for disease progression assessment is considered. Although clinical criteria enable accurate and reliable diagnosis of fully developed Parkinson's disease, there are several areas of diagnostic uncertainty relating to atypical parkinsonian disorders, isolated tremor symptoms not fulfilling essential tremor criteria, as well as drug-induced and psychogenetic parkinsonism. DAT-SPECT facilitates differential diagnosis of the different parkinsonian syndromes that cannot be reliably separated on clinical grounds and it can thus provide valuable diagnostic information in early disease.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0885-3185
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2003 Movement Disorder Society
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18 Suppl 7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S16-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Corpus Striatum, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Diagnosis, Differential, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Neural Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Neurodegenerative Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Parkinson Disease, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Parkinsonian Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Sensitivity and Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Substantia Nigra, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Tomography, Emission-Computed, pubmed-meshheading:14531041-Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Role of dopamine transporter imaging in investigation of parkinsonian syndromes in routine clinical practice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria. werner.poewe@uibk.ac.at
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review