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Dementia with Lewy bodies

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1997

J Allardyce  and
IG McKeith
J Allardyce
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
IG McKeith
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Abstract

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is being increasingly recognized as a common cause of progressive cognitive decline in the elderly, with hospital-based autopsy series demonstrating rates of between 7% and 25% of all cases of dementia, second only in frequency to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although DLB has only recently been described, it is unlikely to be a newly occurring disease but one which has become identifiable as a result of advances in neuropathological techniques which make cortical Lewy bodies (LBs) easier to detect.

Type
Review Article
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , February 1997 , pp. 163 - 170
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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