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Preferred term

Pick Disease of the Brain  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Atrophies, Lobar (Brain)
  • Atrophy, Lobar (Brain)
  • Brain Atrophy, Circumscribed Lobar
  • Circumscribed Lobar Atrophy of the Brain
  • Dementia with Lobar Atrophy and Neuronal Cytoplasmic Inclusions
  • Disease, Pick
  • Disease, Pick's
  • Lobar Atrophies (Brain)
  • Lobar Atrophy (Brain)
  • Lobar Atrophy Of Brain
  • Lobar Atrophy of the Brain
  • Pick Disease
  • Pick Disease Of Brain
  • Pick's Disease
  • Picks Disease
  • Picks Disease of Brain

Scope note

  • A rare form of DEMENTIA that is sometimes familial. Clinical features include APHASIA; APRAXIA; CONFUSION; ANOMIA; memory loss; and personality deterioration. This pattern is consistent with the pathologic findings of circumscribed atrophy of the poles of the FRONTAL LOBE and TEMPORAL LOBE. Neuronal loss is maximal in the HIPPOCAMPUS, entorhinal cortex, and AMYGDALA. Some ballooned cortical neurons contain argentophylic (Pick) bodies. (From Brain Pathol 1998 Apr;8(2):339-54; Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1057-9)

History note

  • 2000; for PICKS DISEASE OF BRAIN use DEMENTIA 1992-1999

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • aivojen lohkosurkastuma
  • aivojen Pickin sairaus
  • atrophia lobaris cerebri
  • demens vid Picks sjukdom
  • dementia in morbo Pick
  • Pickin tautiin liittyvä demenssi
  • Pickin tautiin liittyvä dementia
  • Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020774

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