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Transcranial sonography in pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration.
Journal of neurology - 1 May 2012
Kostić Vladimir S, Svetel Marina, Mijajlović Milija, Pavlović Aleksandra, Ječmenica-Lukić Milica, Kozić Duško, Kozić Dušan
Abstract excerpt
After it was reported that increased tissue iron concentrations were associated with increased echogenicity of the substantia nigra (SN) obtained with transcranial sonography (TCS) in animal and postmortem studies, our goal was to use this method in a disorder characterized with iron accumulation in human brain tissue. Therefore, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and TCS were conducted in 5 unrelated patients with...
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