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Abstract
Two patients whose diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease proved to be incorrect on follow-up are presented. Factors which contributed to the misdiagnosis included failure to obtain collateral history, failure to apply widely accepted diagnostic criteria, over-reliance on structural brain imaging and lack of longitudinal follow-up. Analysis of diagnostic errors may permit avoidance of similar pitfalls in future.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15605679 DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-5031.2004.00314.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Clin Pract ISSN: 1368-5031 Impact factor: 2.503