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Variant Alzheimer's disease with spastic paraparesis: clinical characterization.
Neurology - 14 Mar 2000
Verkkoniemi A, Somer M, Rinne J O, Myllykangas L, Crook R, Hardy J, Viitanen M, Kalimo H, Haltia M
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OBJECTIVE: To present the clinical, neuroimaging, and electrophysiologic characteristics of a variant AD phenotype. BACKGROUND: The authors have identified a large Finnish kindred with presenile dementia and spastic paraparesis due to deletion of exon 9 of presenilin 1. Neuropathologic analysis showed unusual cortical "cotton wool" plaques, immunoreactive for the beta-amyloid peptide but lacking congophilic...
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