title: Emerging patterns of diffusion-weighted MR imaging in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mao-Draayer
authors.forename: Steven P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Braff
authors.forename: Keith J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Nagle
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pendlebury
authors.forename: Paul L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Penar
authors.forename: Robert E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Shapiro
mesh_terms: 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