Comorbidity in Dementia: An Autopsy Study

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-38

  Fu, Catherina ^a   Chute, Dennis J ^a   Farag, Emad S ^a   Garakian, Justine ^a   Cummings, Jeffrey L ^a   Vinters, Harry V ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CADAVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEWY BODY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY;

ADULT; AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0347628952     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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