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E Mostacero Miguel

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PubMed1991

[Contribution of the set-test to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease].

The categoric verbal fluency (colors, animals, fruits and cities) was prospectively evaluated with the set-test in a group of 71 patients with dementia (Alzheimer's disease 38, vascular dementia 19, mixed dementia 2, other dementias 12). In all types of dementia, greater decreases in the categoric verbal fluency were found with greater degrees of severity. However, for equal degree of deterioration, patients with Alzheimer's disease had the smallest scores in the set-test as compared with other types of dementia. 90% of the percentile distribution of patients with Alzheimer's disease had set-test scores below 25. The hypothesis that a set-test score lower than 25 is diagnostic for Alzheimer's disease has a 87% sensitivity and a 67% specificity. It is concluded that in patients with criteria of probable Alzheimer's disease a set-test score lower than 25 supports the diagnosis.

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PubMed1990

[The set-test for diagnosis of dementia].

The set-test evaluates the verbal fluency in 4 categories: colors, animals, fruits and cities. It has been proposed as a diagnostic aid in dementia in elderly patients. Therefore, we have evaluated its yield in a normative control reference group of 79 individuals and in 56 patients with possible dementia. It had a positive correlation of 73 with minimental test. The cut-off value was 29 in adults an 27 in elderly people. A lower score is indicative of dementia. Sensitivity was 79% and specificity 82%, with 20% of incorrectly classified patients. Considering the short duration of the test, we think that it is very useful for the evaluation of patients with dementia.

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[Giant aneurysms of the basilar artery. Six cases].

The authors describe 6 cases of giant aneurysm of the basilar artery diagnosed in the Neurology Department of the Hospital Clínico Universitario of Zaragoza over the last 8 years by cerebral CT, arteriography and NMR with the clinical, diagnostic, and evolutive features of the same being reported. In 2 cases the clinical manifestations initiated as subarachnoid hemorrhage, in another two as AIT, in the fifth case as cerebral infarction and in the sixth case with pseudotumoral clinical manifestations with a necropsy study being available in the latter case. Three of the 6 patients died and of the remaining three only one was, successfully operated on. Anatomopathologic, clinical, therapeutic and diagnostic aspects of giant aneurysms of the basilar trunk are also reviewed with NMR being recommended as the technique of choice in diagnosis.

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[Magnetic resonance in Hallevorden-Spatz disease].

The Hallevorden-Spatz disease should be suspected in children or young people with motor, pyramidal or extrapyramidal symptomatology and deterioration of superior functions specially upon the existence of family history. Pathognomonic diagnosis may only be obtained by necropsy but magnetic resonance images, although not pathognomic, are sufficiently characteristics to strongly support the diagnosis. Four cases of Hallevorden-Spatz disease are presented with special emphasis on the MR images characteristic of this disease.

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