title: Positron emission tomography and histopathology in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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.
authors.affiliation: PET/Biomedical Cyclotron Unit, ULB-Hôpital Erasme, Belgium.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goldman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laird
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Flament-Durand
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Luxen
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Bidaut
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stanus
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hildebrand
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Przedborski
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose