Limitations of clincal criteria for the diagnosis of vascular dementia in clinical trials. Is a focus on subcortical vascular dementia a solution?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 903, Issue , 2000, Pages 262-272

  Erkinjuntti, Timo ^a   Inzitari, Domenico ^b   Pantoni, Leonardo ^b   Wallin, Anders ^c   Scheltens, Philip ^d   Rockwood, Kenneth ^e   Desmond, David W ^f  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINSWANGER ENCEPHALOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PATIENT SELECTION; WHITE MATTER; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; COGNITION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0034170932     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06376.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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