[Contribution of the set-test to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease]. / Aportaciones del set-test al diagnóstico de la enfermedad de Alzheimer.
Neurologia
; 6(3): 78-83, 1991 Mar.
Article
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| ID: mdl-2054205
ABSTRACT
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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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Doença de Alzheimer
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Testes Neuropsicológicos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Neurologia
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
1991
Tipo de documento:
Article