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Case Reports
MRI and FDG PET/CT findings in a case of probable Heidenhain variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
- F Clarençon, F Gutman, C Giannesini, A Pénicaud, D Galanaud, K Kerrou, B Marro, and J-N Talbot.
- Service de médecine nucléaire, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 4, rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, France. fredclare5@msn.com
- J Neuroradiology. 2008 Oct 1;35(4):240-3.
AbstractCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the accumulation of a pathogenic isoform of a prion protein in neurons that is responsible for subacute dementia. The Heidenhain variant is an atypical form of CJD in which visual signs are predominant. This is a report of the case of a 65-year-old man with probable CJD of the Heidenhain variant, with topographical concordance between findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) photopenic areas on positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) for cortical parietooccipital lesions.
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