Dementia lacking distinctive histologic features: A common non-Alzheimer degenerative dementia

Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 251-256

  Knopman, D S ^a   Mastri, A R ^a   Frey, W H ^a   Sung, J H ^a   Rustan, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0025341975     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.40.2.251     Document Type: Article

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