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JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY
Volume 75, Issue 9, Pages 1337-1339Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.028498
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We describe the clinical, neuropsychological, and neuropathological features of a 21 year old woman with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The early presentation was of florid behavioural change involving hyperactivity and disinhibition. Magnetic resonance imaging and single photon emission computed tomography of the brain revealed atrophy and severe functional abnormalities of the frontal and temporal lobes, respectively. Electroencephalogram was normal. At autopsy, there was gross frontotemporal brain atrophy and the underlying histology was of a microvacuolar-type degeneration; no tau or ubiquitin immunoreactive, intraneuronal inclusions were seen. There was no family history of dementia and no mutation in the tau gene. We believe this patient represents the youngest ( so far) recorded case of FTD associated with this particular histological form of the disorder.
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