Posterior cortical atrophy variants of Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 483-487

  Aharon Peretz, Judith ^a,c   Israel, Ora ^a   Goldsher, Dorit ^a   Peretz, Aharon ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Elscint Ltd   (Israel)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; HMPAO SPECT; Posterior cortical atrophy

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CORTICAL ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE DEMENTIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE PERFUSION; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APRAXIAS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032738744     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017194     Document Type: Article

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