Right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia
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Right temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia is a less common subtype of frontotemporal lobar degeneration,
Two distinct pathologic subtypes have been identified with differing clinical presentation. One is a tauopathy, which clinically maps to a similar presentation to behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, whilst the second has TDP-43 pathology and more closely resembles language variant frontotemporal dementia 7.
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- 1. Josephs KA, Whitwell JL, Knopman DS et-al. Two distinct subtypes of right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia. Neurology. 2009;73 (18): 1443-50. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181bf9945 - Free text at pubmed - Pubmed citation
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