Fractional anisotropy in three variants of primary progressive aphasia

European Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 229-233

  Magnin, Eloi ^a,b   Cattin, Franoise ^a   Vandel, Pierre ^a,b   Galmiche, Jean ^a   Moulin, Thierry ^a,b   Rumbach, Lucien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b University Hospital of Besançon   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Logopenic variant; Magnetic resonance imaging; Non fluent agrammatic variant; Primary progressive aphasia; Semantic variant

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGRAMMATIC PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LOGOPENIC PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE;

EID: 84865856252     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: 14219913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000339947     Document Type: Article

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