Frontotemporal dementia and neurocysticercosis: A case report

We report a case of a 67-year-old woman with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and a history of neurocysticercosis. After her retirement she showed progressive behavioral changes and neuropsychiatric symptoms with relative preservation of cognitive functioning. During the next three years, the patient m...

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Autores principales: Satler, Corina, Maestro, Elza Santos, Tomaz, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642012DN06010011
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description We report a case of a 67-year-old woman with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and a history of neurocysticercosis. After her retirement she showed progressive behavioral changes and neuropsychiatric symptoms with relative preservation of cognitive functioning. During the next three years, the patient manifested progressive deterioration of verbal communication gradually evolving to mutism, a hallmark of cases of progressive nonfluent aphasia.
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spelling pubmed-56191102017-12-06 Frontotemporal dementia and neurocysticercosis: A case report Satler, Corina Maestro, Elza Santos Tomaz, Carlos Dement Neuropsychol Case Report We report a case of a 67-year-old woman with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and a history of neurocysticercosis. After her retirement she showed progressive behavioral changes and neuropsychiatric symptoms with relative preservation of cognitive functioning. During the next three years, the patient manifested progressive deterioration of verbal communication gradually evolving to mutism, a hallmark of cases of progressive nonfluent aphasia. Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC5619110/ /pubmed/29213775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642012DN06010011 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Frontotemporal dementia and neurocysticercosis: A case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213775
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