Multicenter clinicopathological correlation in dementia
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 October 1995
J Victoroff, Wendy J. Mack, Scott A. Lyness, Helena Chui
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Clinicians accurately predict Alzheimer's disease-type neuropathological findings in a high proportion of cases of dementia but may not predict cerebrovascular pathology and Lewy bodies in some patients with apparent clinical Alzheimer's Disease and may often fail to predict Alzheimer’s disease- type pathological findings in patients with evident vascular dementia.
Abstract
Clinicians accurately predict Alzheimer's disease-type neuropathological findings in a high proportion of cases of dementia but may not predict cerebrovascular pathology and Lewy bodies in some patients with apparent clinical Alzheimer's disease and may often fail to predict Alzheimer's disease-type pathological findings in patients with apparent vascular dementia. With the emergence of effective treatments for Alzheimer's disease, there is an increasing need to optimize methods for ante-mortem diagnosis of dementia.
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