Subacute dementia and imaging correlates in a case of Fahr's disease

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1163-1165

  Benke, T ^a,c   Karner, E ^a   Seppi, K ^a   Delazer, M ^a   Marksteiner, J ^b   Donnemiller, E ^b  

^a Clinic of Neurology   (Austria)

^b University of Medicine   (Austria)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Neurochirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; APATHY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FAHR DISEASE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SYMPTOM;

AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 3442887148     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.019547     Document Type: Article

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