First symptoms - Frontotemporal dementia versus Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 286-293

  Lindau, M ^a,b   Almkvist, O ^a   Kushi, J ^d   Boone, K ^d   Johansson, S E ^c   Wahlund, L O ^a   Cummings, J L ^d   Miller, Bruce L ^e,f  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Statistics   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; First symptoms; Frontotemporal dementia

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033848239     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017251     Document Type: Article

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