A clinicopathological study of young-onset dementia: Report of 2 autopsied cases

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1117-1123

  Ishihara, Kenji ^a   Horibe, Yuzo ^a   Ohno, Hideki ^a   Sugie, Masayuki ^a   Shiota, Jun'Ichi ^b   Nakano, Imaharu ^c   Kawamura, Mitsuru ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ushioda General Hospital   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Pathology; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Young onset

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOSOGNOSIA; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL DEMENTIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ONSET DEMENTIA;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 80955125182     PISSN: 18816096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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