• DOI:10.1176/APPI.AJGP.12.6.554
Corpus ID: 12375536

Systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in dementia.

@article{Dougall2004SystematicRO,
  title={Systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in dementia.},
  author={N. Dougall and S. Bruggink and Klaus P. Ebmeier},
  journal={The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry},
  year={2004},
  volume={12 6},
  pages={
          554-70
        }
}

N. Dougall, S. Bruggink, Klaus P. Ebmeier

Published 2004

Medicine

The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

OBJECTIVE The authors sought to determine the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in discriminating between Alzheimer disease (AD) and other dementias. METHODS Articles published between 1985 and 2002 were retrieved systematically from MEDLINE and EMBASE, cross-referencing with personal collections and 13 narrative reviews. Of 301 studies identified, 48 survived exclusion criteria and contained extractable data. Two authors independently assessed and graded the methodology of all… CONTINUE READING

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