Can IQCODE differentiate Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 392-394

  Larner, A J ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INFORMANT QUESTIONNAIRE ON COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE ELDERLY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77951926764     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afq014     Document Type: Article

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