Hippocampal atrophy secondary to entorhinal cortical degeneration in Alzheimer-type dementia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 119-122

  Mizutani, Toshio ^a,c   Kasahara, Mari ^a,b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Komagino Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer type dementia; entorhinal cortical degeneration; hippocampus; neuropathology; parahippocampus; perforant pathway; secondary atrophy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NERVE DEGENERATION;

EID: 0031047028     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13365-1     Document Type: Article

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