| Literature DB >> 11942376 |
G G Tribl1, G Strasser, J Zeitlhofer, S Asenbaum, C Jarius, P Wessely, D Prayer.
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A 48-year-old man suddenly developed clinically and electroencephalographically nonspecific dementia. On MRI sequences, only diffusion-weighted images (DWI) of the cortex were unequivocally pathological. Obvious atrophy and basal ganglia signal changes appeared only 9 months after the onset. Brain biopsy confirmed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). In rapidly progressive dementia, we recommend DWI for early diagnosis of CJD.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 11942376 DOI: 10.1007/s002340100695
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuroradiology ISSN: 0028-3940 Impact factor: 2.804