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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord. 2017 May 13;32(7):995–1005. doi: 10.1002/mds.27034

Table 3. Initial and final clinical diagnosis in pathologically diagnosed patients.

PSP CBD MSA-P PD FTLD-bvFTD






Initial clinical diagnosis %
(N / N)
PSP 25.4 (31/122) 6.7 (2/30) 6.3 (2/32) 0.0 (0/34) 1.9 (1/52)
CBS 1.6 (2/122) 0.0 (0/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 0.0 (0/52)
MSA 0.0 (0/122) 3.3 (1/30) 6.3 (2/32) 2.9 (1/34) 0.0 (0/52)
PD 23.0 (28/122) 3.3 (1/30) 71.9 (23/32) 82.4 (28/34) 0.0 (0/52)
FTD 9.8 (12/122) 33.3 (10/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 76.9 (40/52)
FTD-MND 0.0 (0/122) 0.0 (0/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 7.7 (4/52)
MND 0.8 (1/122) 0.0 (0/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 1.9 (1/52)
Parkinsonism 11.5 (13/122) 13.3 (4/30) 0.0 (0/32) 2.9 (1/34) 0.0 (0/52)
LBD 1.6 (2/122) 0.0 (0/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 0.0 (0/52)
NPH 0.0 (0/122) 0.0 (0/30) 3.1 (1/32) 0.0 (0/34) 0.0 (0/52)
AD 1.6 (2/122) 6.7 (2/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 0.0 (0/52)
Dementia 2.5 (3/122) 6.7 (2/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 3.8 (2/52)
Cerebral vasculopathy 2.5 (3/122) 3.3 (1/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 0.0 (0/52)
Essential tremor 0.8 (1/122) 0.0 (0/30) 0.0 (0/32) 2.9 (1/34) 0.0 (0/52)
Depression 4.1 (5/122) 0.0 (0/30) 0.0 (0/32) 0.0 (0/34) 0.0 (0/52)
Mixed 7.4 (9/122) 10.0 (3/30) 6.3 (2/32) 5.9 (2/34) 5.8 (3/52)
Other 8.2 (10/122) 18.8 (6/30) 6.3 (2/32) 2.9 (1/34) 1.9 (1/52)
Final clinical diagnosis
% (N / N)
PSP 62.6 (114/182) 13.7 (7/51) 5.9 (3/51) 7.8 (4/51) 1.4 (1/69)
CBS 1.6 (3/182) 27.5 (14/51) 2.0 (1/51) 0.0 (0/51) 2.9 (2/69)
MSA 1.6 (3/182) 0.0 (0/51) 70.6 (36/51) 3.9 (2/51) 0.0 (0/69)
PD 9.9 (18/182) 0.0 (0/51) 11.8 (6/51) 80.4 (41/51) 0.0 (0/69)
FTD 3.3 (6/182) 29.4 (15/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 65.2 (45/69)
FTD-MND 0.0 (0/182) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 10.1 (7/69)
MND 0.5 (1/182) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 4.3 (3/69)
Parkinsonism 2.7 (4/182) 3.9 (2/51) 2.0 (1/51) 3.9 (2/51) 0.0 (0/69)
LBD 0.5 (1/182) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/69)
NPH 0.0 (0/182) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/69)
AD 3.8 (7/182) 3.9 (2/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 5.8 (4/69)
Dementia 2.2 (4/182) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/69)
Cerebral vasculopathy 0.5 (1/182) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/69)
Essential tremor 0.0 (0/182) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/69)
Depression 0.0 (0/182) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/69)
Mixed 8.2 (15/182) 17.6 (9/51) 7.8 (4/51) 3.9 (2/51) 10.1 (7/69)
Other 2.7 (5/182) 3.9 (2/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/51) 0.0 (0/69)

Initial and final clinical diagnosis of autopsy-confirmed patients with PSP, CBD, MSA-P, PD, and FTLD-bvFTD. Data are % (N with specific clinical diagnosis / N with any record of clinical diagnosis) of patients per group. Values in bold indicate the correct clinical diagnosis. Abbreviations: AD, Alzheimer's dementia; bvFTD, behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia; CBD, corticobasal degeneration; CBS, corticobasal syndrome; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; FTD-MND, frontotemporal dementia with motor neuron disease; FTLD, frontotemporal lobar degeneration; LBD, Lewy body dementia; MSA, multiple system atrophy; MSA-P, multiple system atrophy with predominant parkinsonism; NPH, normal pressure hydrocephalus; PD, Parkinson's disease; PSP, progressive supranuclear palsy.