Progressive aphasia with rapidly progressive dementia in a 49 year old woman

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 238-243

  Greene, John D W ^a,b   Hodges, John R ^c   Ironside, James W ^b   Warlow, Charles P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032910199     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.66.2.238     Document Type: Article

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