Several studies of environmental risk factors in sporadic behavioral variant FTD found a significant association with head trauma and a close-to-significant association with thyroid disease. 7 Furthermore, elevations in cerebrospinal fluid cytokines, notably TNF-α, have previously been demonstrated in FTD. 8 An association between MND and autoimmune diseases also have been suggested previously.
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Frontotemporal Dementia with Motor Neuron Disease in a Patient with Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Case Report.
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