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Similar early clinical presentations in familial and non-familial frontotemporal dementia.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Dec 2004
Piguet O, Brooks W S, Halliday G M, Schofield P R, Stanford P M, Kwok J B J, Spillantini M-G, Yancopoulou D, Nestor P J, Broe G A, Hodges J R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether there are early clinical features that can distinguish between patients with familial and non-familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD). OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical features of FTD cases who have tau gene mutations with those of cases with a family history of FTD but no tau gene mutation, and with sporadic cases with neither feature. METHODS AND RESULTS: Comparisons of the...
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