Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 194, Issue 1 , Pages 41-48 , 15 February 2002

Preservation of nigral neurons in Pick's disease with Pick bodies: a clinicopathological and morphometric study of five autopsy cases

  • Osamu Yokota

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    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Hideki Ishizu

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    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Seishi Terada

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    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Kuniaki Tsuchiya

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    • Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Takashi Haraguchi

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    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Soichiro Nose

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    • Department of Pathology, Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital, Okayama, Japan
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  • Kensuke Kawai

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    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Kenji Ikeda

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    • Department of Neuropathology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Shigetoshi Kuroda

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    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan

Received 12 July 2001 ,Revised 20 September 2001 ,Accepted 14 November 2001.

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Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 194, Issue 1 , Pages 41-48 , 15 February 2002

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