| Literature DB >> 12823502 |
Y Nishio1, Y Nakano, K Matsumoto, M Hashimoto, H Kazui, N Hirono, K Ishii, E Mori.
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We described a patient with bilateral striatal infarcts, in whom stereotyped and disinhibited behaviors were insidiously emerged over 2 years mimicking frontotemporal dementia (FTD). A positron emission tomography with 18-fluorodeoxy glucose showed a hypometabolism in the frontal lobes, basal ganglia, and thalami. The peculiar behavioral alterations remained unchanged for the following 7 years, suggesting that the disease is not degenerative but of vascular origin. A disruption of the fronto-subcortical circuits at the level of the striatum or the anterior thalamic peduncle is attributable to the FTD-like behavioral and cognitive syndrome.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 12823502 DOI： 10.1046/j.1468-1331.2003.00628.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Neurol ISSN： 1351-5101 Impact factor: 6.089