Omental therapy for primary progressive aphasia with tau negative histopathology: 3 Year study

Neurological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 766-769

  Shankle, William R ^a,b,c   Hara, Junko ^b   Bjornsen, Lynda ^d   Gade, George F ^a,e   Leport, Peter C ^a   Ali, Mir B ^a   Kim, Jinho ^a   Raimo, Maryellen ^a   Reyes, Linda ^a,f   O'Heany, Terence ^a   Mena, Ismael ^g  

^a Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center   (United States)

^b Shankle Clinic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Lakewood Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^e Morton Plant Hospital   (United States)

^f Cardiology Specialist Medical Group Inc   (United States)

^g CLÍNICA LAS CONDES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe dementia; Frontotemporal dementia; Omentum; Primary progressive aphasia

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OMENTUM; OMENTUM TRANSPOSITION SURGERY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; RECOGNITION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; APHASIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OMENTUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TAU PROTEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 68849109193     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313209X382511     Document Type: Article

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