Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) comprises a group of neurodegenerative disorders, characterized by progressive changes in behavior, executive dysfunction and language impairment, as a result of degeneration of the medial prefrontal and frontoinsular cortices. Four clinical subtypes have been identified: semantic dementia, progressive non-fluent aphasia, behavioral variant FTD and right temporal lobar atrophy. [ Orphanet:282 ]
Synonyms: Wilhemsen-Lynch disease multiple system tauopathy with presenile dementia pallidopontonigral degeneration FTD frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Term information
- Orphanet:282 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- DOID:9255 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- GARD:8436 (Orphanet:282)
- UMLS:C0338451 (Orphanet:282/e)
- NCIT:C84719 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- MESH:D057180 (Orphanet:282/e)
- MedDRA:10068968 (Orphanet:282/e)
gard_rare, disease_grouping, rare, orphanet_rare, ordo_group_of_disorders
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C84719
http://identifiers.org/mesh/D057180
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0338451
http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_282
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9255