Usefulness of simple measures of temporal lobe atrophy in probable alzheimer’s disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-22

  Frisoni, Giovanni B ^a   Beltramello, Alberto ^b   Weiss, Claudia ^b   Geroldi, Cristina ^a   Bianchetti, Angelo ^a   Trabucchi, Marco ^a  

^a GERIATRIC RESEARCH GROUP   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Atrophy; Hippocampus; Linear measures; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medial temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030052306     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106847     Document Type: Article

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