Diagnosing dementia with Lewy bodies: new diagnostic criteria
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Diagnostic accuracy of dementia with Lewy bodies.
BACKGROUND Diagnostic criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are still evolving. No data exist on prospective differentiation of DLB and Alzheimer disease (AD). OBJECTIVE To examine the clinician's diagnostic accuracy for DLB and analyze factors contributing to false-positive DLB diagnoses. METHODS A prospective series of 10 patients with clinically diagnosed DLB who came to autopsy w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1478-2715,2042-8189
DOI: 10.4997/jrcpe.2018.110