Staging of alzheimer-type pathology: An interrater-intrarater study

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 248-251

  Nagy, Z ^a   Vatter Bittner, B ^b   Braak, H ^b   Braak, E ^b   Yilmazer, D M ^b   Schultz, C ^b   Hanke, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interrater; Intrarater; Staging of pathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEURITE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031006068     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106639     Document Type: Article

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