Persistent post-operative cognitive decline: Naked truth, invisibility cloak or the "emperor's new clothes"?

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-220

  Sanders, Robert D ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELIRIUM; DRUG EXPOSURE; HUMAN; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE DECLINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 79955593183     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2011-101681     Document Type: Note

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