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Validation of diagnostic criteria for frontotemporal dementia

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Pijnenburg YA et al. (2008) Diagnostic accuracy of consensus diagnostic criteria for frontotemporal dementia in a memory clinic population. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 25: 157–164

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