Clinical and pathological evidence for a frontal variant of Alzheimer disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1233-1239

  Johnson, Julene K ^a   Head, Elizabeth ^a   Kim, Ronald ^a   Starr, Arnold ^a   Cotman, Carl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE PLAQUE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; SENILE PLAQUES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032850581     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.56.10.1233     Document Type: Article

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