Positron emission tomography and histopathology in Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 43 (9) , 1828
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.43.9.1828
Abstract
We studied a 62-year-old man with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), using positron emission tomography (PET) and (18F)-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG). Glucose metabolism was heterogeneously decreased throughout the brain. At autopsy, regional distributions of spongiosis, astrogliosis, and neuronal loss correlated with premortem regional metabolic deficits. These results suggest that PET with FDG may provide metabolic regional markers for CJD neuropathology.Keywords
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