Nuclear imaging can predict pathologic diagnosis in progressive nonfluent aphasia

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 238-239

  Nestor, P J ^a,b   Balan, K ^a   Cheow, H K ^a   Fryer, T D ^b   Knibb, J A ^a   Xuereb, J H ^c   Hodges, J R ^a,d  

^a Department of Clinical Neurosciences ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSULA; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; HUMANS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33846248678     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000251309.54320.9f     Document Type: Article

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