The Alzheimer variant of lewy body disease: A pathologically confirmed case-control study

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 89-94

  Perneczky, R ^a   Mosch D ^a   Neumann, M ^b   Kretzschmar, H ^b   Muller U ^c   Busch, R ^d   Forstl H ^a   Kurz, A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer type dementia; Histopathology; Lewy body dementia

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 23944474818     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086472     Document Type: Article

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