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Nomenclature for neuropathologic subtypes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration: consensus recommendations

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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Ian R. A. Mackenzie

  2. Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Manuela Neumann

  3. Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    Eileen H. Bigio

  4. Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

    Nigel J. Cairns

  5. Section of Neuropathology, Kuopio University, Kuopio, Finland

    Irina Alafuzoff

  6. Department of Pathology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jillian Kril

  7. Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Gabor G. Kovacs

  8. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Bernardino Ghetti & Salvatore Spina

  9. Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Glenda Halliday

  10. Department of Pathology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

    Ida E. Holm

  11. Neuropathology Group, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, UK

    Paul G. Ince

  12. Department of Pathology, Vrije University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Wouter Kamphorst & Annemieke J. M. Rozemuller

  13. Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Queen Square, London, UK

    Tamas Revesz

  14. Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Samir Kumar-Singh

  15. Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan

    Haruhiko Akiyama

  16. Neuropathology, The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK

    Atik Baborie

  17. Neuropathology Laboratory, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Dennis W. Dickson

  18. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    John Q. Trojanowski

  19. Clinical Neuroscience Research Group, Greater Manchester Neurosciences Centre, University of Manchester, Salford, UK

    David M. A. Mann

  20. Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada

    Ian R. A. Mackenzie

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Mackenzie, I.R.A., Neumann, M., Bigio, E.H. et al. Nomenclature for neuropathologic subtypes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration: consensus recommendations. Acta Neuropathol 117, 15–18 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-008-0460-5

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