Is brain SPECT useful in degenerative dementia diagnosis?

Karim Farid1, Nadine Caillat-Vigneron, Igor Sibon

  • 1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hôtel Dieu Hospital, Paris, France. kwfarid@hotmail.com

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