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Is MRI better than CT for detecting a vascular component to dementia? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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BACKGROUND: Identification of causes of dementia soon after symptom onset is important, because appropriate treatment of some causes of dementia can slow or halt its progression or enable symptomatic treatment where appropriate. The accuracy of MRI and CT, and whether MRI is superior to CT, in detecting a vascular component to dementia in autopsy confirmed and clinical cohorts of patients with VaD, combined AD and VaD ("mixed dementia"), and AD remain unclear. We conducted a systematic revie...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1471-2377-12-33
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+ National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Programme
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Wilcock, G
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Neurology Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 33
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
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1471-2377
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1471-2377
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350306
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- English
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- pubs:350306
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- Copyright holder:
- Beynon et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- © 2012 Beynon et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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