Concept information
Preferred term
Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- Heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by frontal and temporal lobe atrophy associated with neuronal loss, gliosis, and dementia. Patients exhibit progressive changes in social, behavioral, and/or language function. Multiple subtypes or forms are recognized based on presence or absence of TAU PROTEIN inclusions. FTLD includes three clinical syndromes: FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA, semantic dementia, and PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonym(s)
- FTLD
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemically induced (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- ethnology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- rehabilitation (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Dégénérescence lobaire fronto-temporale
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DLFT
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-HGM03894-L
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