Is encephalopathic brain genetically more prone to dementia?

• Authors: Ivan Sosa , Ines Strenja-Linic
• Languages of publication: EN
• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 730-731

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2013

online

6 - 12 - 2013

Contributors

author

Ivan Sosa

• Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics, University of Rijeka School of Medicine, B. Branchetta 20, 51 000, Rijeka, Croatia

author

Ines Strenja-Linic

• Neurology Clinic; Neurovascular Diseases and Expansive Processes Department, Rijeka University Hospital, Rijeka, Croatia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-013-0229-7