Does perfusion CT enable differentiating Alzheimer's disease from vascular dementia and mixed dementia? A preliminary report

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 114-120

  Zimny, Anna ^a   Sasiadek, Marek ^a   Leszek, Jerzy ^a   Czarnecka, Anna ^a   Trypka, Elzbieta ^a   Kiejna, Andrzej ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Differential diagnosis; Mixed dementia; Neuroimaging; Perfusion CT; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CALCULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL PERFUSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INTERNAL CAPSULE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249792122     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.01.051     Document Type: Article

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