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Mental Disorders > Neurocognitive Disorders > Dementia > Lewy Body Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Dementia > Lewy Body Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Movement Disorders > Parkinsonian Disorders > Lewy Body Disease
... > Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Basal Ganglia Diseases > Parkinsonian Disorders > Lewy Body Disease
Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Proteostasis Deficiencies > Synucleinopathies > Lewy Body Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Neurodegenerative Diseases > Synucleinopathies > Lewy Body Disease

Preferred term

Lewy Body Disease  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cortical Lewy Body Disease
  • Dementia, Lewy Body
  • Diffuse Lewy Body Disease
  • Lewy Body Dementia
  • Lewy Body Disease, Cortical
  • Lewy Body Disease, Diffuse
  • Lewy Body Type Senile Dementia

Note

  • LEWY BODY PARKINSON DISEASE see PARKINSON DISEASE is also available

Scope note

  • A neurodegenerative disease characterized by dementia, mild parkinsonism, and fluctuations in attention and alertness. The neuropsychiatric manifestations tend to precede the onset of bradykinesia, MUSCLE RIGIDITY, and other extrapyramidal signs. DELUSIONS and visual HALLUCINATIONS are relatively frequent in this condition. Histologic examination reveals LEWY BODIES in the CEREBRAL CORTEX and BRAIN STEM. SENILE PLAQUES and other pathologic features characteristic of ALZHEIMER DISEASE may also be present. (From Neurology 1997;48:376-380; Neurology 1996;47:1113-1124)

History note

  • 2000; use PARKINSON DISEASE 1992-1999; for DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE & LEWY BODY DISEASE, DIFFUSE use PARKINSON DISEASE 1992-1999

In other languages

  • lewynkappaledementia

    Finnish

  • Lewyn kappale -demenssi
  • Lewyn kappale -dementia
  • Lewyn kappale -parkinsonismi
  • Lewyn kappale -sairaus
  • Lewyn kappale -tauti
  • lewynkappaletauti
  • Lewykroppssjukdom

    Swedish

  • Demens, Lewykropp
  • Lewy Body-demens
  • Lewykroppsdemens

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020961

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