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Evaluating a Patient with Transcranial Sonography to Look for Echogenicity
Author(s) -
Yilmaz Rezzak,
Berg Daniela
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
movement disorders clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 2330-1619
DOI - 10.1002/mdc3.12503
Subject(s) - substantia nigra , third ventricle , echogenicity , basal ganglia , medicine , parkinson's disease , lateral ventricles , brainstem , raphe , neuroscience , anatomy , radiology , psychology , ultrasound , pathology , central nervous system , disease , receptor , serotonergic , serotonin
View Supplementary Video 1 In the last decades, transcranial sonography has been proven to be a useful imaging method in the field of movement disorders. In the clinical routine, structures that are easy to evaluate are the mesencephalic brainstem, including the mesencephalic midline raphe and the substantia nigra in the mesencephalic scanning plane; and the third ventricle, lateral ventricles, basal ganglia, and thalamus in the third ventricular scanning plane. In this video S1, we demonstrate the sonographic assessment of a healthy individual and a patient with Parkinson's disease, visualize how the main structures look, and discuss the assessment. In both individuals, we focus on the planimetric measurement of the substantia nigra.