Monster plaques: What they tell us about Alzheimer's disease
Bruce A. Yankner
Division of Neuroscience The Children's Hospital and Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
An unusual variant of Alzheimer's disease challenges the role of classic amyloid plaques in the pathogenesis of dementia (pages 452−455).
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