Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia can present as frontotemporal dementia syndrome

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 150-158

  Wong, Janice C ^a   Chow, Tiffany W ^b,c,d   Hazrati, Lili Naz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c Division of Neurology   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early onset dementia; Frontotemporal dementia; Histopathology; Neuropathology; Non Alzheimer dementia; Systematic review; White matter disease; White matter hyperintensities; White matter pathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT ONSET LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY WITH AXONAL SPHEROID AND PIGMENTED GLIA; AGED; AMNESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHOREA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSARTHRIA; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRITABILITY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; WHITE MATTER;

AXONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA; PIGMENTATION; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 80053526648     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331422     Document Type: Review

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