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Case Reports
. 2012 Aug;259(8):1749-51.
doi: 10.1007/s00415-012-6444-3. Epub 2012 Feb 10.

Frontotemporal dementia with psychosis, parkinsonism, visuo-spatial dysfunction, upper motor neuron involvement associated to expansion of C9ORF72: a peculiar phenotype?

Gianluca Floris, Giuseppe Borghero, Antonino Cannas, Francesca Di Stefano, Emanuela Costantino, Maria R Murru, Maura Brunetti, Gabriella Restagno, Bryan J Traynor, Maria G Marrosu, Adriano Chiò, Francesco Marrosu
Case Reports

Frontotemporal dementia with psychosis, parkinsonism, visuo-spatial dysfunction, upper motor neuron involvement associated to expansion of C9ORF72: a peculiar phenotype?

Gianluca Floris et al. J Neurol. 2012 Aug.
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Fig. 1
a–c Brain MRI T1-weighted transversal scans showing bilateral frontotemporal and posterior cerebral areas atrophy. d–f Perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with 99Tc-ethylene cystine dimer (ECD). The transversal scans show a marked reduction of the uptake in the frontotemporal regions bilaterally and in the parietal lobes
Fig. 2
Fig. 2. Severe constructional apraxia demonstrated by the copy of a simple drawing
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