Emerging patterns of diffusion-weighted MR imaging in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: case report and review of the literature.
We report the use of diffusion-weighted MR imaging in the early diagnosis and monitoring of the progression of a histopathologically proved case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Ribbon-like areas of hyperintensity in the cerebral cortex on diffusion-weighted images corresponded to the localization of periodic sharp-wave complexes on the electroencephalogram.
Mao-Draayer
Yang
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Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA.
Braff
Steven P
SP
Nagle
Keith J
KJ
Pendlebury
William
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Penar
Paul L
PL
Shapiro
Robert E
RE
D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000473:pathology; D001706:Biopsy; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged