Posterior Cortical Atrophy: Unusual Feature of Alzheimer's Disease

Neurocase

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 495-501

  Rogelet, Pascal ^a   Delafosse, Annette ^a   Destee, Alain ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GERSTMANN SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PROSOPAGNOSIA;

EID: 0030455999     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554799608402425     Document Type: Article

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