ArticleNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2015
Transcranial sonography and the pocket smell test in the differential diagnosis between parkinson's disease and essential tremor.
Article in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Differentiating Parkinson's Disease from Essential Tremor Using Transcranial Sonography: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2022Pooled it
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Transcranial Sonography of the Substantia Nigra in Parkinson's disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2016Pooled it
- Application and progress of transcranial substantial ultrasound in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
- Transcranial Sonography of the Substantia Nigra for the Differential Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders: A Meta-Analysis.Parkinson's disease · 2021Review
- Auditory and Olfactory Deficits in Essential Tremor - Review of the Current Evidence.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2020Review
- Essential tremor vs idiopathic Parkinson disease: Utility of transcranial sonography.Medicine · 2020Article
- Increased substantia nigra echogenicity correlated with visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease: a Chinese population-based study.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Clinical features and dysfunctions of iron metabolism in Parkinson disease patients with hyper echogenicity in substantia nigra: a cross-sectional study.BMC neurology · 2018Article
- The olfactory bulb as the entry site for prion-like propagation in neurodegenerative diseases.Neurobiology of disease · 2018Article
- The measuring of substantia nigra hyperechogenicity in an Italian cohort of Parkinson disease patients: a case/control study (NOBIS Study).Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2017Article
- Neuroimaging of Parkinson's disease: Expanding views.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2015Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the specificity and sensitivity of transcranial sonography (TCS) and the Pocket Smell Test (PST) in differing Parkinson's disease from essential tremor. The results were compared with the dopamin transporter scan (DaTSCAN) findings. Based on the DaTSCAN finding we formed a group of patients with essential tremor (51 patients) and a group with the Parkinson's disease (59 patients). The control group consisted of 26 healthy one. To evaluate the olfactory dysfunction the PST was used, whereas by TCS the substantia nigra hyperechogenicity was marked. The sensitivity and specificity of each diagnostic method was statistically calculated. In confirming Parkinson's disease the specificity of TCS was 88.2 % and the sensitivity 94.9 %. The specificity of PST was 80.4 % whereas the sensitivity was 74.6 %. TCS and PST should be performed to evaluate which patients need to be examined by DaTSCAN.
Indexed as
Identifiers
25787809What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.