'Pseudo-Alzheimer's' and primary brain tumour.
Primary brain tumour may present in the elderly purely as a dementing illness before the onset or detection of sensorimotor neurological symptoms or signs. Although neurological examination may indicate no definite signs, close attention to accepted DSM-IIIR and NINCDS-ADRDA diagnostic criteria for primary degenerative dementia and 'probable' Alzheimer's disease respectively will suggest a process other than a degenerative one. This was the case in two patients with primary brain tumour presenting clinically with dementing illness similar to but distinct from Alzheimer's disease.
O'Mahony
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Department of Medicine for the Elderly, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Walsh
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Coakley
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003704:Dementia / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans