Accurate prediction of histologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease and the differential diagnosis of dementia: The use of NINCDS-ADRDA and DSM-III-R criteria, SPECT, X-ray CT, and Apo E4 in medial temporal lobe dementias

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages 191-222

  Jobst, Kim A ^a,c   Barnetson, Lin P D ^a   Shepstone, Basil J ^b  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PREDICTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; X RAY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATROPHY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031469342     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610297004912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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