Is there a link between gynecologic surgeries and Alzheimer disease?

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 196-197

  Rocca, Walter A ^a   Henderson, Victor W ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; UTILIZATION;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENOPAUSE;

EID: 84895773392     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000043     Document Type: Editorial

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