Alzheimer disease: Alzheimer disease neuropathology in the oldest old

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 411-412

  Kril, Jillian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CELL COUNT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; NEURITIC PLAQUE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPORAL LOBE; AGE; AGED; BRAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70350438588     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.105     Document Type: Short Survey

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