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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Neurol. 2006 Oct;63(10):1427–1432. doi: 10.1001/archneur.63.10.1427

Table 1.

Comparison of patients with PCA with and without visual hallucinations

PCA with hallucinations (n=13) PCA without hallucinations (n=46) Total PCA patients (n=59)
Gender: Male/Female 6:7 17:29 23:36
Median age at disease onset in years (range) 63 (49–86) 57 (40–74) 59 (40–86)
Right-handed 13 (100%) 45 (98%) 58 (98%)
Median number of years of education (range) 12 (12–17) 14 (8–20) 14 (8–20)
RBD present * 8 (62%) 0 (0%) 8 (14%)
Parkinsonism present * 10 (77%) 7 (15%) 17 (29%)
Myoclonic jerks present ** 6 (46%) 1 (2%) 7 (12%)
Median difference in years between onset of hallucinations and onset of PCA (range) 4 (1–12) N/A N/A
Median difference in years between onset of RBD and onset of PCA 3 (1–7) N/A N/A
Median difference in years between onset of parkinsonism and onset of PCA 4(2–10) 3 (2–7) N/A
Median difference in years between onset of myoclonic jerks and onset of PCA 2(1–11) N/A N/A

Significantly different

*

p<0.0001:

**

p=0.0002

N/A = not applicable

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