Left frontotemporal hypoperfusion is associated with aggression in patients with dementia

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 861-866

  Hirono, Nobutsugu ^a,b   Mega, Michael S ^b   Dinov, Ivo D ^b   Mishkin, Fred ^c   Cummings, Jeffrey L ^b  

^a Hyogo Inst Aging Brain Cogn D   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

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TECHNETIUM 99M;

AGED; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034084817     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.57.6.861     Document Type: Article

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