. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord. 2016 Jan 22;31(2):250–256. doi: 10.1002/mds.26476

Table 2.

Biopsy specifics for Parkinson’s disease and Control Cases

	Parkinson’s disease N=25	Control N=10	95% CI Difference	P
Number of tissue core biopsies	4.72 (0.68)	4.60 (0.84)	−0.43 to 0.67	.66
Maximal Total Gland area, mm²	5.8 (4.8)	8.2 (5.8)	−6.2 to 1.5	.22
Total slides screened by PhD-trained neuropathologist	64 (13)	65 (12)	−10 to 9	.95
Total slides examined by board-certified neuropathologist	23 (14)	20 (11)	−7 to 13	.53
Number of positive cases	14	2
Number of positive slides in LTS positive subjects Mean (SD), N	6.4 (4.5), 14	9.5 (10.6), 2	−11.5 to 5.4	.45

Data expressed as mean (SD)