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Familial benign frontotemporal deterioration with C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansion.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association - 1 Oct 2014
Gómez-Tortosa Estrella, Serrano Soledad, de Toledo María, Pérez-Pérez Julián, Sainz M José
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BACKGROUND: In recent years, a benign variant of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) has been recognized, with a particularly slow progression of cognitive deficits and scarce frontotemporal atrophy or hypoperfusion in neuroimaging studies. Patients with FTLD have been considered "phenocopies," with an underlying nondegenerative neurologic process. RESULTS: We report the first family with three affected...
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