A systematic review on the diagnosis and treatment of primary (idiopathic) dystonia and dystonia plus syndromes: report of an EFNS/MDS‐ES Task Force

…, A Newton, I Rektor, M Savoiardo… - European journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
To review the literature on primary dystonia and dystonia plus and to provide evidence‐based
recommendations. Primary dystonia and dystonia plus are chronic and often disabling …

Adult-onset Alexander disease: a series of eleven unrelated cases with review of the literature

…, MR Carriero, L Farina, I Ceccherini, M Savoiardo - Brain, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Alexander disease (AD) in its typical form is an infantile lethal leucodystrophy, characterized
pathologically by Rosenthal fibre accumulation. Following the identification of glial fibrillary …

Frontotemporal Dementia and Corticobasal Degeneration in a Family with a P301S Mutation in Tau

…, C Solaro, M Grisoli, M Savoiardo… - Journal of …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
The tau gene has been found to be the locus of dementia with rigidity linked to chromosome
17. Exonic and intronic mutations have been described in a number of families. Here we …

Differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonian disorders by magnetic resonance imaging

M Savoiardo - Neurological Sciences, 2003 - Springer
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is not usually considered helpful for establishing the
diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, but it is much more important to support the clinical diagnosis …

Age-related Iron Deposition in the Basal Ganglia: Quantitative Analysis in Healthy Subjects1

…, B Garavaglia, MG Bruzzone, N Nardocci, M Savoiardo… - Radiology, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose: To determine the values of iron accumulation in the basal ganglia of healthy
volunteers of different ages with R2* and raw signal intensity measurements from T1-weighted …

Olivopontocerebellar atrophy: MR diagnosis and relationship to multisystem atrophy.

M Savoiardo, L Strada, F Girotti, RA Zimmerman… - Radiology, 1990 - pubs.rsna.org
Clinical diagnosis of olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA) must be confirmed by radiologic
demonstration of atrophy in an appropriate distribution. OPCA may be associated with …

Prognostic factors for survival in 676 consecutive patients with newly diagnosed primary glioblastoma

…, S Giombini, B Pollo, M Savoiardo… - Neuro …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Reliable data on large cohorts of patients with glioblastoma are needed because such
studies differ importantly from trials that have a strong bias toward the recruitment of younger …

Anti–amyloid β autoantibodies in cerebral amyloid angiopathy–related inflammation: implications for amyloid‐modifying therapies

…, SM Greenberg, M Savoiardo, M Gardinetti… - Annals of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Cerebral amyloid angiopathy–related inflammation (CAA‐ri) is characterized by
vasogenic edema and multiple cortical/subcortical microbleeds, sharing several aspects with …

Novel (ovario) leukodystrophy related to AARS2 mutations

…, K Őunap, R Schiffmann, E Salsano, M Savoiardo… - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Objectives: The study was focused on leukoencephalopathies of unknown cause in order to
define a novel, homogeneous phenotype suggestive of a common genetic defect, based on …

Diagnostic imaging in 13 cases of Rasmussen's encephalitis: can early MRI suggest the diagnosis?

…, M Viri, B Dalla Bernardina, R Spreafico, M Savoiardo - Neuroradiology, 2003 - Springer
Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a rare, progressive, chronic encephalitis characterised by
drug-resistant epilepsy, progressive hemiparesis and mental impairment. It typically involves …