Pathological entity of dementia with Lewy bodies and its differentiation from Alzheimer’s disease
✍ Scribed by Wami Marui; Eizo Iseki; Masanori Kato; Hiroyasu Akatsu; Kenji Kosaka
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 498 KB
- Volume
- 108
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6322
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