Frontotemporal Dementia - 14/12/17
, Salvatore Spina, MD, PhD a, Bruce L. Miller, MD a, bRiassunto |
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a heterogeneous disorder with distinct clinical phenotypes associated with multiple neuropathologic entities. Presently, the term FTD encompasses clinical disorders that include changes in behavior, language, executive control, and often motor symptoms. The core FTD spectrum disorders include behavioral variant FTD, nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia, and semantic variant PPA. Related FTD disorders include frontotemporal dementia with motor neuron disease, progressive supranuclear palsy syndrome, and corticobasal syndrome. In this article, the authors discuss the clinical presentation, diagnostic criteria, neuropathology, genetics, and treatments of these disorders.
Il testo completo di questo articolo è disponibile in PDF.Keywords : Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Primary progressive aphasia, Nonfluent PPA, Semantic PPA, Motor neuron disease, Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), Corticobasal syndrome (CBS)
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Vol 35 - N° 2
P. 339-374 - maggio 2017 Ritorno al numeroBenvenuto su EM|consulte, il riferimento dei professionisti della salute.
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