Dementia with Lewy bodies. A distinct non-Alzheimer dementia syndrome?

doi:10.1111/j.1750-3639.1998.tb00156.x

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Dementia with Lewy bodies. A distinct non-Alzheimer dementia syndrome?

Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) - 1 Apr 1998

Ince P G, Perry E K, Morris C M

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Lewy body formation is central to the pathological phenotype of a spectrum of disorders. The most familiar of these is the extrapyramidal syndrome of idiopathic Lewy-body Parkinson's disease (PD). Studies of dementia in the elderly suggest that another manifestation of Lewy body pathology is equa...

Topics

Alzheimer Disease
Dementia
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Parkinson Disease
Phenotype
Syndrome

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