Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Criteria for the clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies

  • Letters
  • Published:
The Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Förstl H., Burns A., Luthert P., Cairns N., Levy R.:The Lewy body variant of Alzheimer's disease. Clinical and pathological findings. British J. Psychiatry 162: 385–392, 1993.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Lennox G., Lowe J., Morrell K., Landon M., Mayer R.J.:Anti-ubiquitin immunocytochemistry is more sensitive than conventional techniques in the detection of diffuse Lewy body disease. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 52: 67–71, 1989.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Liberini P., Valerio A., Memo M., Spano P.F.:Lewybody dementia and responsiveness to cholinesterase inhibitors: a paradigm for heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease? TiPS 17, 556–561, 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  4. McKeith I.G., Galasko D., Kosaka K. et al.:Consensus guidelines for the clinical and pathological diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Neurology 47: 1113–1124, 1996.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Perry R.H., Irving D., Blessed G., Fairbairn A., Perry E.K.:Senile dementia of the Lewy body type: a clinically and neuropathologically distinct form of Lewy body dementia in the elderly. J. Neurol. Sci. 95: 119–139, 1990.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Italian Delegate, International Study Group on Dementia with Lewy, Bodies Necastle upon Tyne, U.K.

    Liberini P.

Authors
  1. Liberini P.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Liberini, P. Criteria for the clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies. Ital J Neuro Sci 18, 61 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02106235

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02106235

Keywords

Search

Navigation