Posterior Cortical Atrophy: Neuropathologic Correlations

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 269-274

  Ross, G Webster ^a   Benson, D Frank ^a   Verity, M Anthony ^a   Vinters, Harry V ^a   Victoroff, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ALEXIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW VIRUS DISEASE; SYNDROME DELINEATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DEMENTIA; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028271365     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1994.00540150063018     Document Type: Article

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