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Review
. 2007 Sep 1;335(7617):441-5.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39289.437454.AD.

Parkinson's disease

C E Clarke  1
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Review

Parkinson's disease

C E Clarke. BMJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: CEC received honorariums for lectures, travel expenses for conferences, and unrestricted educational grants from Boehringer-Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Lundbeck, Orion Pharma, Novartis, Schwarz Pharma, Teva, and Valiant.

Figures

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Fig 1123I-FP-CIT SPECT scans. A: Essential tremor with normal uptake. B: Early Parkinson's disease with asymmetric loss of uptake in the putamen seen as loss of the tail of the “comma” from the left hemisphere. C: Late Parkinson's disease with severe loss of putamen uptake bilaterally seen as loss of both tails resulting in two “full stops.” Courtesy of Dr A Notgi. Reproduced with permission from Clarke CE. Parkinson's Disease in Practice. 2nd ed. London: RSM Press, 2007
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Fig 2 Management of psychosis in Parkinson's disease. Adapted with permission from NICE
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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