Temporal pattern of cognitive decline and incontinence is different in Alzheimer's disease and diffuse Lewy body disease

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 682-686

  Del Ser, Teodoro ^a   Munoz, David G ^b   Hachinski, Vladimir ^b  

^a HOSPITAL SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0029996295     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.3.682     Document Type: Article

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