Over 10 years of isolated autonomic failure preceding dementia and Parkinsonism in 2 patients with lewy body disease [6]

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 595-597

  Yamanaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Asahina, Masato ^a   Hiraga, Akiyuki ^a   Sakakibara, Ryuji ^a   Oka, Hisayoshi ^b   Hattori, Takamichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; THREO 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLSERINE;

AGED; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARKINSONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34247196567     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21332     Document Type: Letter

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