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Does striatal pathology distinguish Parkinson disease with dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies?
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Sept 2006
Jellinger Kurt A, Attems Johannes
Abstract excerpt
The morphological differentiation of Parkinson disease with dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a matter of discussion. The objective of this study was to investigate the regional distribution of beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaques, alpha-synuclein (AS), and pathology in both disorders. The basal ganglia from 17 age-matched patients of PDD and DLB each were immunohistochemically examined with variable...
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