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Mixed Dementia in Clinical Trials of Alzheimer's Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Fadi Massoud*
Affiliation:
Department de Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Abstract

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Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2012

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