Prevalence of potentially reversible dementias and actual reversibility in a memory clinic cohort

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 657-662

  Freter, Susan ^a,d   Bergman, Howard ^a   Gold, Susan ^a   Chertkow, Howard ^a,b   Clarfield, A Mark ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HERZOG HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 0032558431     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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