Nomenclature and Nosology for Neuropathologic Subtypes of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: an Update

Overview

Journal Acta Neuropathol

Specialty Neurology

Date 2009 Nov 20

PMID 19924424

Citations 469

Authors

Ian R A Mackenzie

Manuela Neumann

Eileen H Bigio

Nigel J Cairns

Irina Alafuzoff

Jillian Kril

Gabor G Kovacs

Bernardino Ghetti

Glenda Halliday

Ida E Holm

Paul G Ince

Wouter Kamphorst

Tamas Revesz

Annemieke J M Rozemuller

Samir Kumar-Singh

Haruhiko Akiyama

Atik Baborie

Salvatore Spina

Dennis W Dickson

John Q Trojanowski

David M A Mann

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