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Assessment of Iron Deposition in the Brain in Frontotemporal Dementia and Its Correlation with Behavioral Traits.
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology - 1 Oct 2017
Sheelakumari R, Kesavadas C, Varghese T, Sreedharan R M, Thomas B, Verghese J, Mathuranath P S
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Brain iron deposition has been implicated as a major culprit in the pathophysiology of neurodegeneration. However, the quantitative assessment of iron in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia brains has not been performed, to our knowledge. The aim of our study was to investigate the characteristic iron levels in the frontotemporal dementia subtypes...
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