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AB is a 62-year-old retired gentleman living with his wife who was referred for diagnostic workup following outpatient review in the neuropsychiatric clinic. There was a 3-year history of progressive deficits in cognitive functioning, of insidious onset, and characterized initially by prominent language and visuospatial deficits, with memory impairment noted more recently.
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Mohan, A., Lee, T., Sachdev, P. (2016). An Atypical Variant of a Common Neurodegenerative Disorder. In: Priller, J., Rickards, H. (eds) Neuropsychiatry Case Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42190-2_4
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