Clinical validity of Braak staging in the oldest-old

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 583-584

  Jellinger, Kurt A ^a  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STAGING;

EID: 0034081779     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051164     Document Type: Editorial

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