Is there pure vascular dementia in old age?

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 299, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 150-154

  Jellinger, Kurt A ^a   Attems, Johannes ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL NEUROBIOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autopsy study; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy; Vascular dementia; Very old age

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; AUTOPSY; BINSWANGER ENCEPHALOPATHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78649507828     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.08.038     Document Type: Article

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