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Differentiation of dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer's disease using Mini-Mental State Examination and brain perfusion SPECT

✍ Scribed by Haruo Hanyu; Soichiro Shimizu; Kentaro Hirao; Hidekazu Kanetaka; Hirofumi Sakurai; Toshihiko Iwamoto; Kiyoshi Koizumi; Kimihiko Abe

Book ID
119302075
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
219 KB
Volume
250
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-510X

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