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Diagnostic Accuracy of Dementia with Lewy Bodies ArchNeurol 57:347-351, Hohl,U.,et al, 2000 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract The clinical diagnostic accuracy for DLB was 50%, with 5 of the 10 patients clinically presumed to have DLB confirmed at autopsy. Of the 5 misdiagnosed cases, 4 had AD and 1 had progressive supernuclear palsy. The misdiagnosed DLB cases who had pure AD had fewer hallucinations (25%) than those with Lewy body variant (63%) or diffuse Lewy body disease (100%) (P = .048); however, an equal amount of spontaneous (in the absence of neuroleptics) extrapyramidal signs was found. There were no differences among groups with regard to daily fluctuations in cognition of falls. Compared with the AD control group, the misdiagnosed DLB cases with pure AD showed significantly more spontaneous extrapyramidal signs (P

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