In dementia with lewy bodies, braak stage determines phenotype, not lewy body distribution

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 407-408

  Jellinger, Kurt A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LETTER; LEWY BODY; PARKINSONISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; AGE; AGED; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; NOTE; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STANDARD;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LEWY BODIES; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39749133662     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000304033.82293.9a     Document Type: Letter

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