Practical guidelines for the antemortem diagnosis of senile dementia of the Alzheimer type.
SDAT is the most common type of dementia in the elderly but is difficult to diagnose antemortem. The clinical assessment gives a 80% accuracy of diagnosis. 18F-DG is currently the best imaging technique for the diagnosis of SDAT in vivo. A cortical biopsy with histology and assay of CAT is required to give a diagnosis of definite SDAT.
D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed