Kufs' disease - A rare cause of early onset dementia;Die Kufs-erkrankung. Seltene ursache einer fruh beginnenden demenz

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Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 411-415

  Schreiner, R ^a,b   Becker, Ingrid ^a   Wiegand, M H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Abt F Neurol Klin Neurophysiol   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dementia; Kufs disease; MRI; Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; LIPOFUSCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL CEROID-LIPOFUSCINOSES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034115641     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001150050577     Document Type: Article

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