Evaluating the Swallow-Tail Sign on susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) for Parkinson's disease diagnosis: A bivariate meta-analysis.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Swallow-Tail Sign (STS), reflecting nigrosome-1 integrity in the substantia nigra, is a magnetic resonance imaging biomarker for Parkinson's disease (PD). Although susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is widely available, the diagnostic performance of STS on SWI has not been comprehensively...