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Atypical frontotemporal dementia as a new clinical phenotype of Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease with the PrP-P102L mutation. Description of a previously unreported Italian family.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Dec 2008
Giovagnoli Anna Rita, Di Fede Giuseppe, Aresi Anna, Reati Fabiola, Rossi Giacomina, Tagliavini Fabrizio
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To describe a new dementia phenotype of Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) in a previously unreported Italian family. Design Longitudinal clinical and neuropsychological assessment, combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single positron emission tomography (SPECT) and molecular genetic studies. Setting Neuropsychology Laboratory, and Division of Neuropathology and Neurology, "C....
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