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The significance of medial temporal lobe atrophy

DOI

200

Citations

23

References

2007

Year

Frederik Barkhof, Tuomo Polvikoski, Elisabeth C.W. van Straaten, Raj N. Kalaria, Raimo Sulkava, Hannu J. Aronen, Leena Niinistö, Sari Rastas, Minna Oinas, Philip Scheltens,
Neurology

Abstract

Medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA) on postmortem MRI is sensitive to primary degenerative hippocampal pathology in the very old, but not specific for Alzheimer-type pathology. MTA scores of 2 or less are not frequently associated with dementia.

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