BACKGROUND Transcranial sonography (TCS) has become a new diagnostic tool in the evaluation of extrapyramidal disorders. Studies of TCS report alterations of the mesencephalic raphe in patients with depression. The aim of this study was to evaluate TCS findings in patients with Huntington disease in correlation with their neurologic and psychiatric status. METHODS We recruited patients with g...

how to cite this article: farhadi r, alaee ar, alipour z, abbaskhanian a, nakhshab m, derakhshanfar h. prevalence of stroke in neonates who admitted with seizures in neonatal intensive care unit. iran j child neurol. autumn 2015;9(4):41-47. abstract objective prevalence of neonatal stroke has been reported 1/2300-1/4000 live births and accounts for 12-20% of the cases of neonatal seizures. alth...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: t he study on transcranial sonocraphy (tcs) as a diagnostic test for parkinson’s disease (pd) has been neglected in some hospitals. the current study was conducted as the first study to investigate the utility of tcs for diagnosis of pd and its ability to distinguish pd from essential tremor (et) in an iranian population. materials and m...

A large number of articles have reported substantia nigra hyperechogenicity in Parkinson's disease (PD) and have assessed the diagnostic accuracy of transcranial sonography (TCS); however, the conclusions are discrepant. Consequently, this systematic review and meta-analysis aims to consolidate the available observational studies and provide a comprehensive evaluation of the clinical utility of...

Power-based transcranial color-coded sonography and contrast-enhanced transcranial color-coded sonography are ultrasonographic techniques that allow improved visualization of vascular structures. The present study was designed to investigate and compare the diagnostic capacity and applicability of both methods in the assessment of intracranial vessels of the circle of Willis (33 patients) and t...

Abstract Background Transcranial sonography is a point-of-care tool recommended in intensive care units (ICU) to monitor brain injured patients. Objectives of the study was assess feasibility and reliability third ventricle (V3) diameter measurement using transcranial (TCS) compared computed-tomography (CT), gold standard measurement, measure TCS learning curve. Design : prospective study, 16-b...

 Background: Major depression is a common disorder with great social and individual burdens. Transcranial sonography (TCS) is a useful and noninvasive measure for assessment of normal and impaired brain parenchyma. The brainstem raphe nuclei are in close association with dorsocaudal limbic system and plays an important role in depression. In this study we compared the echogenicity of the r...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the utility of the combined use of cardiac 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scintigraphy, olfactory testing, and substantia nigra (SN) hyperechogenicity on transcranial sonography (TCS) in differentiating Parkinson's disease (PD) from atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APSs), such as multiple system atrophy (MSA) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). METHO...

AIM We investigated preclinical abnormalities as revealed by transcranial sonography (TCS) in patients with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) compared with those revealed in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) or Parkinson's disease (PD) and in normal controls. METHODS Twenty-two patients with iRBD, 21 patients with MSA, 22 patients with PD, and 21 normal co...