Cerebral emboli as a potential cause of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: casecontrol study
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Cerebral emboli as a potential cause of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: case-control study.
OBJECTIVE To compare the occurrence of spontaneous cerebral emboli and venous to arterial circulation shunts in patients with Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia and controls without dementia. DESIGN Cross sectional case-control study. SETTING Secondary care old age psychiatry services, Manchester. PARTICIPANTS 170 patients with dementia (85 with Alzheimer's disease, 85 with vascular...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38814.696493.ae