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PENA GALBAN, Liuba Y.; RODRIGUEZ ACOSTA, Juan Carlos  y  CASAS RODRIGUEZ, Ludmila. Demencia en la enfermedad de Pick. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2001, vol.30, n.2, pp. 129-132. ISSN 1561-3046.

A brief review of presenile dementia and of the current concepts according to the international classification of mental and behaviour disorders (ICD-10) and to the Manual of Statistics and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) is made. The case of an aged patient that began with a clinical picture of anxiety and depression, received treatment with antidepressants and 8 months later had neurological manifestations is reported. At the beginning she had walk disorders and afterwards muscular rigidity, tremor, difficulty to speak, memory loss and other behaviour alterations. The differential diagnosis is made with Alzheimer's disease, dementia in Jakob-Creutzfeld disease and brain tumors of the frontal region.

Palabras clave : MENTAL DISORDERS [classification]; DEMENTIA [diagnosis]; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL.

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