CT Appearance of Panencephalopathic and Ataxic Type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

1 March 1991

journal article
case report
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Vol. 15 (2) , 332-334
https://doi.org/10.1097/00004728-199103000-00031

Abstract

We present a proven case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with severe involvement of white matter and cerebellum. Serial CT showed a unique pattern consisting of discrete cerebral and cerebellar atrophy, diffuse white matter hypodensity, and progressive enlargement of lateral and fourth ventricles.

Keywords

DISCRETE
CEREBELLUM
ATROPHY
ENLARGEMENT
FOURTH
CREUTZFELDT
JAKOB
HYPODENSITY
PANENCEPHALOPATHIC