Leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids presenting as frontotemporal dementia

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 386-387

  Levin, Netta ^a   Soffer, Dov ^a   Biran, Iftah ^a   Gomori, John M ^a   Bocher, Moshe ^a   Blumen, Sergieu C ^b   Abramsky, Oded ^a   Segal, Ricardo ^a   Lossos, Alexander ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Frontotemporal dementia; Leukoencephalopathy; White matter disease

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCONTINENCE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROAXONAL TUMOR SPHEROID; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SEIZURE; TUMOR SPHEROID;

AXONS; BIOPSY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 46149083243     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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