Frontotemporal dementia: An attempt at clinical characteristics

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 217-220

  Pfeffer, A ^a   Luczywek E ^b   Golebiowski M ^b   Czyzewski, K ^b   Barcikowska, M ^b  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Clinical picture; Frontotemporal dementia; Hippocampus atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SPEECH DISORDER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032927726     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017122     Document Type: Article

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