Hypochondriacal Symptoms as the First Sign of Frontotemporal Dementia
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Hypochondriacal symptoms as the first sign of frontotemporal dementia.
To the Editor: Frontotemporal dementia is a clinicopathological entity characterized by prominent changes in behavior and personality resulting from frontal and temporal lobe degeneration. Neuropsychiatric features can be so conspicuous as to completely overshadow cognitive dysfunction, usually leading to diagnostic flaw or delay. Among these, hypochondriacal symptoms can be found, but usually ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuropsychiatry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0895-0172
DOI: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.22.4.451-b.e3