The clinical overlap between the corticobasal degeneration syndrome and other diseases of the frontotemporal spectrum: Three case reports

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 159-164

  Raggi, Alberto ^a,b   Marcone, Alessandra ^a   Iannaccone, Sandro ^a   Ginex, Valeria ^a,b   Perani, Daniela ^b,c   Cappa, Stefano F ^a,b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corticobasal degeneration; Frontotemporal dementia; Nonfluent progressive aphasia; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPRAXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GAIT DISORDER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDER;

EID: 34548105177     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/218189     Document Type: Article

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