The MRI pattern of frontal and temporal brain atrophy in fronto-temporal dementia

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-103

  Boccardi, Marina ^a   Laakso, Mikko P ^b   Bresciani, Lorena ^a   Galluzzi, Samantha ^a   Geroldi, Cristina ^a   Beltramello, Alberto ^c   Soininen, Hilkka ^b   Frisoni, Giovanni B ^a  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Frontal lobes; Fronto temporal dementia; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0037213721     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(02)00045-3     Document Type: Article

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