Alzheimer's disease: Differences in technetium-99m HMPAO SPECT scan findings between early onset and late onset dementia

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 715-719

  Kemp, P M ^a   Holmes, C ^b   Hoffmann, S M A ^a   Bolt, L ^a   Holmes, R ^c   Rowden, J ^b   Fleming, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORGREEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PARAMETRIC TEST; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXIMES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0038354732     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.6.715     Document Type: Article

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