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Juvenile frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism associated with tau mutation G389R.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Jan 2013
Chaunu Marie-Pierre, Deramecourt Vincent, Buée-Scherrer Valérie, Le Ber Isabelle, Brice Alexis, Ehrle Nathalie, El Hachimi Khalid, Pluot Michel, Maurage Claude-Alain, Bakchine Serge, Buée Luc
Abstract excerpt
Frontotemporal lobe degeneration includes a large spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders. Patients with frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 exhibit heterogeneity in both clinical and neuropathological features. Here, we report the case of a young patient with a G389R mutation. This teenager girl was 17 years old when she progressively developed severe behavioral disturbances. First,...
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