Frontotemporal dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis complex is simulated by neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 298-300

  Santillo, Alexander Frizell ^a   Skoglund, Lena ^a   Lindau, Maria ^a   Eeg Olofsson, Karin Edebol ^a   Tovi, Metin ^b   Engler, Henry ^a   Brundin, Rose Marie ^a   Ingvast, Sofie ^a   Lannfelt, Lars ^a   Glaser, Anna ^a   Kilander, Lena ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Frontotemporal dementia; Hallervorden Spatz disease; Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; IODINE 123; IRON; PANTOTHENATE KINASE 2; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 GROUP VI;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DENERVATION; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PANTOTHENATE KINASE-ASSOCIATED NEURODEGENERATION; PEDIGREE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349140111     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e3181a2b76b     Document Type: Article

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