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Use of MMSE to differentiate Alzheimer's disease from dementia with Lewy bodies—response to Larner

✍ Scribed by Thomas Ala; Larry F. Hughes; Gregory A. Kyrouac; Mona W. Ghobrial; Rodger J. Elble

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
28 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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Use of MMSE to differentiate Alzheimer's disease from dementia with Lewy bodies Dear Editor

Like Dr Ala and his colleagues (Ala et al., 2002), we have encountered patients with pathologically confirmed dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) who retro-spectively scored < 5 on the Ala MMSE subscore test (Doran and Larner, 2004, case 1). Hence, like them, we have hoped that this might be a useful diagnostic test for DLB and might assist in the differential diagnosis of DLB from Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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