Rapidly progressive aphasic dementia with motor neuron disease: A distinctive clinical entity

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 21-28

  Catani, Marco ^a,b   Piccirilli, Massimo ^b   Geloso, Maria Concetta ^e   Cherubini, Antonio ^b   Finali, Giancarlo ^c   Pelliccioli, Gianpiero ^d   Senin, Umberto ^b   Mecocci, Patrizia ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c Spinal Cord Unit   (Italy)

^d Univ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore ^*  (Italy)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Motor neuron disease; Progressive aphasia

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

AGED; APHASIA; DEMENTIA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0345491529     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074139     Document Type: Article

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