Multi-Infarct Dementia

David S. Geldmacher and Peter J. Whitehouse
Department of Neurology
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio 44106

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Alzheimer Center and Division of Behavioral and Geriatric Neurology
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio 44106.


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