Utility of ischemic scores in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and ischemic vascular dementia

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 413-424

  Swanwick, Gregory R J ^a,b   Coen, Robert F ^a   Lawlor, Brian A ^a   O'Mahony, Denis ^a   Walsh, J Bernard ^a   Coakley, Davis ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b Dept of Psychiatry of Old Age ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030471957     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610296002773     Document Type: Article

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